Elon Musk Is In The Business Of Bad Puns, To Start ‘Boring’ Company And Eliminate Traffic

Traffic is a problem that it seems everyone has to deal with, even super-rich CEOs like Elon Musk. Apparently having had enough of those hours behind noisy cars that hardly move, the Tesla Motors CEO is planning on starting what everyone is picking up on as a “boring” company. Bad pun aside, the purpose seems to be to create underground freeways to minimize traffic.

Musk first made his interest in building more tunnels known back in January, during the first phase of the Hyperloop Pod Competition, Futurism reports. At that time, the multi-CEO said that it would be wonderful if people built more tunnels in order to lighten the traffic problem that is becoming worse as population explodes.

Recently, Musk Tweeted out his intention to start a company that will literally bore into the ground and create the tunnels that no one else seems to be making. He even followed up his initial Tweets by saying that he will be creating “The Boring Company,” which is as bad of a pun as it can get.

Now, looking at these Tweets, one would be forgiven for thinking that it’s just a mix of jokes and comments of frustration brought out by heavy traffic. However, Musk is not just some juvenile teenager who posts things without thinking. In fact, the tech figure has a reputation for actually following through on some wildly crazy ideas, TechCrunch notes.

Then again, this doesn’t remove the possibility that he is just trolling everyone, as he has been known to do. After all, Musk has a relatively unfiltered Twitter account and it has hosted some troll-ish online behavior in the past.

In the event that the billionaire is serious, however, it’s going to be another controversial move in the eyes of Wall Street. The talking heads have never been big fans of Musk’s habit of setting really lofty goals.