Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
The Boring Company plans to build a new tunnel system that would connect residential garages to an underground hyperloop via elevator, potentially enabling people to someday enter the futuristic public transit system by simply stepping into their parked cars.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company plans to build a new tunnel system that would connect residential garages in Hawthorne, CA, to an underground hyperloop via elevator, potentially enabling people to someday enter the futuristic public-transit system by simply stepping into their parked cars.
The company won unanimous approval from the Hawthorne City Council on Tuesday to build a prototype for the system, reports the Mercury News.
To test the prototype, the Boring Company purchased a private residence under which it plans to build the elevator shaft and connect it to a one-mile underground tunnel it has already built in Hawthorne. Interestingly, the company said it plans to rent the home.
Plans indicate that the proposed elevator shaft will lower cars underground where they will attach to a “skate” that connects the car to the hyperloop track.
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