ELON MUSK'S UNDERGROUND TUNNELS IN LA STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE

Building a tunnel is traditionally a painstaking process that moves along at a glacial pace, but The Boring Company believes it can get things done a whole lot quicker. 

Elon Musk first began talking about building tunnels last year as a way to help solve LA's notorious traffic problems, and no one was quite sure how serious the serial entrepreneur was. That was December and in a space of less than a year, The Boring Company is showing that anything is possible and they are quite serious. 

Musk said that the tunnel is currently 152.4 m long, but that within three or four months should measure around 3.2 km. And a year down the track, he is hopeful that it will cover the entire stretch of the Interstate 405 highway that runs from LAX to the 101. Musk has stated previously that snails are able to move 14 times faster than current tunnel boring machines, and The Boring Company is aiming to close that gap.

Musk said that there would be on and off ramps every 1,5 km or so and that the tunnel would function as a fast freeway. Using electric skates, vehicles and passenger pods would be shuttled along at up to 214 km/h, with the skates exciting and entering via a dedicated side tunnel to avoid logjams. 

"Get ready," Musk said, when asked for his thoughts on the technology, "I think it's coming to Maryland and it's going to go from Baltimore to Washington".