Dec 19, 2018

In photos: Elon Musk reveals Boring Co.'s underground tunnel

Marisa Fernandez

Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Elon Musk unveiled his Boring Company's test tunnel in Hawthorne, Calif. on Tuesday night, allowing guests to take some of the first rides on the tech entrepreneur's solution to "soul-destroying traffic."

Details: "Guests boarded Musk's Tesla Model S and rode along Los Angeles-area surface streets about a mile away," the Associated Press reports. It then approached a "wall-less elevator that slowly took the car down a wide shaft, roughly 30 feet ... below the surface."

A view of the company's party with the tunnel entrance visible in green at right. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
A modified Tesla Model X drives into the tunnel entrance. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Tunnel boring equipment is displayed before the unveiling event. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images.

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