Elon Musk’s Tunnel Project Is Underway, Tweets Pictures Of Initial Boring

Elon Musk has been telling the world that he intends to create tunnels big enough for cars to pass through in order to reduce the burden of traffic on the populace. The Tesla CEO recently sent out Tweets about the project, one of which included a picture of what appears to be the start of a boring operation. The post was accompanied by one word; “Minecraft.”

The eccentric tech figure has a lot of things on his plate but this didn’t stop him from coming through on his promise to start a boring company in order to create tunnels under the streets of Los Angeles, Fortune reports. Based on the Tweets from his official account so far, it would seem that the project has begun last weekend, which is earlier than his previous statement that it could take a month or two for tunneling to begin.

It would seem that being ahead of schedule is precisely within the schedule, however, with the tech pioneer intending to reduce traffic considerably. As to whether or not this can be done in an expedient manner, Musk explained in a recent interview with Wired that he intends to speed up the drilling by up to 1,000 percent.

Aside from simply easing traffic jams, it would seem that there is also another application to the drilling program that has to do with another of Musk’s major projects; the Hyperloop. This is a construct involving thousands of miles of rails where a carriage or a series of carriages will run through a tube at high speeds. In order to avoid obstructing daily life on the surface, an underground route would be logical.

When asked about it on Twitter, Musk simply replied with “maybe,” indicating that he is at least considering this possibility. Heck, it could even have applications for the upcoming Mars mission by SpaceX, Futurism notes. Building a colony on the red planet might be easier with underground tunnels, after all.