Disruption is a core dogma of the technical school industry . Presumably , this is why billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has embarked on a new undertaking to disrupt solid solid ground . Over the weekend , Musk began digging a large - ass hole on SpaceX properties to begin try out out how tobuild a high - speed tunnelunderneath Los Angeles .
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-drills-down-on-los-angeles-tunnel-plans-1791636104
It all began in December , when Musk take toTwitterto complain about Los Angeles dealings . “ dealings is drive me nuts , ” he wrote . “ Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just begin digging … I am actually going to do this . ” And unlike the eternal sleep of us , Muskfollows throughon his Twitter promise .
I am in reality plump to do this
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)December 17 , 2016
But as any good mole individual could tell you , boring a tunnel is no simple task . “ We have no idea what we ’re doing — I want to be clear about that , ” Musk tell at a SpaceX hyperloop design competitor on Sunday .
Musk has been in publicity mode over the last week , actively using his Twitter news report to supportRex Tillerson for Secretary of State , DM with journalist , andcrowdsourcing suggestionson how to amend Trump’s“unlawful”immigration prohibition .
Last week , MusktoldThe Verge that “ without tunnels , we will all be in dealings hell forever , ” calling his idea to bore tunnels underneath Los Angeles “ the headstone to work out urban gridlock . ”
He toldWIRED , “ If you suppose of tunnels going 10 , 20 , 30 layer mystifying ( or more ) , it is obvious that going three-D down will cover the indigence of any metropolis ’s transport of arbitrary size . ”
On Sunday Muskelucidatedon the concept of “ going 3-D down ” :
You have tall buildings , they ’re all 3D , and then everyone want to go into the building and go away the building at a same meter . On a 2D route connection , that obviously does n’t work , so you have to go 3D either up or down . And I think probably down .
Is 3D down the future tense of technical school ?
Some urban preparation expert are n’t quite on gameboard with Musk ’s twist cloak-and-dagger imaginativeness . An urban preparation investigator at UCLA toldWIRED , “ Our late experience with tunnels in the US is that neighbors worry , you run up against various environmental Torah , and you just never have a go at it what ’s underneath the Earth . ”
But Musk maintained , “ better tunneling technical school ameliorate everything : route , underpass , Hyperloop . ”
As of now , Musk ’s boring tests are restricted to troupe holding , meaning an underground Los Angeles throughway wo n’t happen in the near futurity . If Musk wants to build a high pep pill tunnel to LAX , as he ’s antecedently suggested , a spokesperson for the LA Department of Public Works toldWIREDthat it would need blessing from the LA City Council .
If Musk ’s burrow dreaming never gets realized , he need not interest . Since Trump was elect , things have beengoing pretty wellfor the technical school god . He ’ll be all right !
[ WIRED ]
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