‘We have consistently flirted with death’: The construction problems in Elon Musk’s tunnels
The Loop, the modular network of underground connections aimed at ending traffic jams in cities like Las Vegas or Los Angeles, has...
The Boring Company's Prufrock was going to be 10-15 times faster than a conventional tunnel boring machine. The author omitted that prediction...
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-worst-predictions-and-broken-promises-1851398745
Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt...
The 2024 edition of the Not a Boring Competition has started with 130 participants from 8 teams and 5 countries, tweeted The Boring Company;
https://twitter.com/boringcompany/status/1773051455957524751
The Boring Company website says...
TBC started shipping and assembling Prufrock 3 parts at Giga Texas in January.
https://www.teslarati.com/the-boring-company-prufrock-3-tesla-giga-texas/
The Boring Company’s (TBC) 2024 Not-a-Boring Competition recently started with 130 students in 8 teams from 5 countries.
https://www.teslarati.com/the-boring-company-not-a-boring-competition-2024/
Rather than speedy autonomous pods, it currently utilizes slow-moving Teslas
https://www.vegasslotsonline.com/news/2024/03/18/elon-musks-las-vegas-loop-genius-engineering-or-overhyped-disaster/
LVCVA board of directors voted to move forward with the extension of Elon Musk's Boring Company Vegas Loop. ...
https://news3lv.com/news/local/lvcva-votes-extend-vegas-loop-amid-workplace-concerns
Boring Company has hired lawyers to contest the claims
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13135885/elon-musk-Las-Vegas-loop-tunnel-construction.html
Five people who’ve seen the ... latest version, Prufrock 2, which dug the Encore tunnel...it required more employees to manage it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39517720
Yet, as reality sets in, the chasm between promises and realities widens.
https://techstory.in/elon-musks-tunnel-vision-a-tale-of-challenges-and-concerns/
The dark side of The Boring Company’s Las Vegas venture...
'The presence of these chemicals turned the construction site into a minefield of health hazards, with direct contact causing burns that left permanent scars on workers'...
"By far the biggest impediment is getting permits. Construction is becoming practically illegal in North America and Europe!"
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/elon-musk-boring-company-market-cap