Elon Musk's 'The Boring Company' challengers the designers to come up with innovative ways of tunneling.

The aim of the competition called 'Not-a-Boring-Competition' 's stated as " This competition challenges teams to come up with tunneling solutions and answer the question, “Can you beat the snail?”. The Boring Company is gauging interest from everyone (students, companies, hobbyists, etc.) from around the world to design, build, and race their own tunneling solution at The Boring Company’s Dig-a-Factory in the first Not-a-Boring Competition in Spring 2021".

According to The Boring Company's site, the teams will compete to bore a 30-meter tunnel with a cross-sectional area of 0.2 square meters (equivalent to a circle with a 0.5-meter diameter).  Winning categories will include:

• Fastest to complete tunnel
• Fastest to complete tunnel and a driving surface (we will drive a Tesla remote controlled car through the tunnel
• Most accurate guidance system – how far away is the tunnel from its target?

Teams can apply via the website of the company:

https://www.boringcompany.com/competition#:~:text=The Boring Company is gauging,Boring Competition in Spring 2021