Elon Musk Unveils Name of LA Car Sled Venture, 'Ready' to Dig More

Who knew Elon Musk was a fan of poetry?

The Tesla and SpaceX boss tweeted late on Wednesday his other ambitious venture, The Boring Company, is “almost ready” to unleash its second tunnel digger, artistically named “Line-Storm” after a Robert Frost poem.

“The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, the road is forlorn all day, where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, and the hoof-prints vanish away,” goes the opening verse.

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Second boring machine almost ready. Will be called Line-Storm, after the poem by Frost. "And be my love in the rain." pic.twitter.com/xlWPYdPu3P

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2017

The Boring Company is Musk’s attempt to solve one of humanity’s most vexing questions: Los Angeles traffic. With a series of underground tunnels, passengers will dart across town by hooking their cars up to underground sleds. Moving at speeds up to 125 miles per hour, Musk previewed the rapid sleds back in May on his Instagram. Looks a lot better than sitting in traffic on the 405 freeway.

[Warning, this may cause motion sickness or seizures] This is a test run of our electric sled that would transport cars at 125 mph (200 km/h) through the tunnels, automatically switching from one tunnel to the next. Would mean Westwood to LAX in 5 mins.

A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on May 12, 2017 at 5:48am PDT

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The Boring Company received the green light to dig a two-mile tunnel from the City of Hawthorne — its hometown — in August. Until then, it’d only been able to drill directly below SpaceX’s headquarters. Keeping with the company’s literary tradition, its first tunnel-digger was called “Godot” — not a typo of the Wonder Woman actress’ name, but a line from the Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for Godot.”

Musk is looking to take the traffic fix beyond L.A., however. The serial entrepreneur tweeted in July he’d received “verbal government approval” to start building an East Coast version of his plan — zipping commuters from New York City to Washington, D.C. in just 29 minutes.

TheWrap has already made it clear to Musk’s PR team it’s ready and willing to try out the underground sleds when The Boring Company is set to demo.

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Pay Pal

Musk made his initial fortune thanks to PayPal, which he sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. He made a cool $165 million off the deal.
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Tesla Motors

Instead of buying an island and living the high life after the PayPal sell, Musk went to work on getting the world off its dependency on oil. He founded Tesla Motors (now Tesla Inc.) in 2003, taking over an old Toyota-General Motors manufacturing plant in the Bay Area. The slick electric cars can travel 250 miles without a charge and sell for upwards of $100,000. Its "mass" car, the Model 3, is due out in 2018.
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Space X

Perhaps the project most important to Musk is SpaceX. Founded in 2002, the rocket company has worked with NASA on several launches. SpaceX made history when it developed "recycled" rockets that are able to be launched, landed and reused. Even more ambitious, Musk wants to send manned missions to Mars within the next decade... and colonize the red planet.
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Hyperloop

Musk frequently travels back and forth between NorCal and SoCal, and he wants to do it quickly. Enter Hyperloop, where passengers will be put in pods and shot through tubes connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour. Musk sketched the concept in 2013, and it's now being pursued by a group in L.A. full-time.
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Neuralink

Musk is also big on artificial intelligence and hopes to find a way to directly connect humans to machines. That's where his Neuralink comes in. Co-founded by Musk in 2016, the company aims to integrate our minds with AI advancements via chip implants.
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The Boring Company

The Boring Company aims to alleviate traffic by building an underground network of tunnels. Cars would be able to latch on to giant sleds and zip through tunnels at 125 mph or passengers can take futuristic glass buses if they want.
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SolarCity

Founded by Musk's cousins in 2006, SolarCity is the second-largest provider of solar panels in the USA. Musk owned 22 percent of its shares when Tesla bought-out the company for more than $2.5 billion in 2016.
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