Elon Musk’s “The Boring Company” — which has its sights set on solving Los Angeles traffic through a network of underground tunnels — continues to tease the masses, releasing new pictures of the futuristic buses that’ll dart people around town earlier today.
The shuttles look like the coolest version of a subway car imaginable, with up to about a dozen passengers comfortably sitting or standing in the glass bus. (This reporter raises his hand to volunteer for first trial run with humans.)
This adds a second method of transportation from Boring (which is anything but); the company will also have cars locked-in to sleds above ground, drop below the surface on an elevator, and then shoot through the tunnels.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Musk gave us a sneak peak at what it’ll look like in action earlier this month on Instagram, with the sleds racing through the tunnels at speeds up to 125 miles per hour.
The genesis of the company stems from Musk’s frustration with sitting in traffic last year (he splits his time between the Bay Area in Northern California for Tesla and Los Angeles for SpaceX). Musk said on Instagram the first tunnels will go from LAX to Culver City, Santa Monica, Westwood and Sherman Oaks — trips that would take upwards of 45 minutes in rush hour traffic, but only five minutes via the tunnels.
For a look at how your car will be able to use the tunnels, check out the video below.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a 10-year road map for the world's biggest social network, including projects in virtual reality and artificial intelligence, at its annual developers' conference F8 in San Francisco.
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Zuckerberg said he believes virtual reality headsets will be no different than traditional pairs of glasses in 10 years.
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The company released a reference design for a camera shaped like a U.F.O. that can capture 360-degree video.
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Facebook Messenger is about to get an army of bots. Chatbots, which are programs powered by artificial intelligence that do simple things, are going to integrate into Facebook's instant messaging system. It makes it easier for companies like CNN to send you personalized stories and other tasks.
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Facebook is obsessed with live video, and it wants you to be able to stream live from any device -- even a drone. To mark a move opening up the programming to Facebook live streaming, Zuckerberg flew a drone out on stage that filmed everybody in the packed conference hall.
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Zuckerberg kicked off the conference by making a veiled jab at Donald Trump. “I hear fearful voices calling for building walls ... Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges," he said, as he explained that connecting the world is key to Facebook's future. (Maybe Trump won't notice: His preferred social network is Twitter, after all.)
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes you’ll watch VR on your regular old Warby Parker glasses in 10 years, see the other big announcements Facebook made at its annual F8 conference
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a 10-year road map for the world's biggest social network, including projects in virtual reality and artificial intelligence, at its annual developers' conference F8 in San Francisco.