The project of Ilona Mask The Boring Company continues to deepen and expand. This time she had to go broke for a few more million dollars to buy a second boring machine and start digging a tunnel between Washington and Baltimore.
The Electrek website reports that Musk is not just going to use these drilling equipment, but also plans to modify them. Now a hefty tunnel laying machine weighs 1,200 tons, its diameter is eight meters, and its length is 120 meters. With such dimensions, it is able to lay up to one hundred meters of tunnel per week, but this, according to the head of the company, is not enough. Therefore, Musk said that he wanted to refine both cars, increasing their productivity by more than three times - so, in his opinion, the project will be able to reach a new level. Tunnels will be laid faster, and the payback period for equipment costs will be reduced.
The idea to get rid of traffic jams with the help of tunnels occurred to the entrepreneur at the end of last year, and in the spring his company began to dig the first test tunnels and sign contracts for laying them with local authorities. For several months, specialists developed the concept of tunnels, within which elevators and trolleys will be located after a certain distance. The latter will quickly deliver cars to their destination without traffic jams and accidents.
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