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The Boring Company Information Session

The Boring Company · talk · Watch on YouTube

Transit, cities & urban planningCivil engineering & constructionTech industry & business models

What it is

A long information session where The Boring Company presents its vision for Loop, an underground high-speed transit system, and the traffic problems it aims to solve. It includes discussion of faster tunnel boring and electrification.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as the primary source for what the company is actually proposing, in threads skeptical of the project.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “I enjoyed Musk's Boring Company's presentation, where they talk about some problems with transportation today and present some solutions”

    Presentation on city transportation problems and tunnel solutions.

    dmos62, 2018-09 · Recommendation · in “Life in the Spanish city that banned cars”

  2. “there is a pretty good video of an interview with Musk and the chief engineer on the project”

    Interview on speeding up tunnel boring and electrification.

    larkost, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Elon Musk's tunnel project is a bad joke”

  3. “It's worth watching to see what they are proposing.”

    Explains the pod-based tunnel transit proposal.

    joshe, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: boring company, tunneling, loop, urban transportation, elon musk

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