Boring Company to build car lifts connecting garages to tunnels

A southern California city has given the green light this week to the Elon Musk tunnel digging company, The Boring Company, to build an underground car lift.

Yes, a car lift that would take your vehicle from your street-level garage to an underground chamber that connects to the growing tunnel network of the drilling company.

Musk is testing what it says is one day a high-speed underground transport system and the latest development tests the direct access of homes to the 100 km / h electric pod system in tunnels below.

A 2-mile test tunnel in Hawthorne, California (just south of Los Angeles International Airport) is nearing completion, which seems to be part of the next phase. The Boring Company, or TBC, returned Tuesday to Hawthorne City Council and got full approval to build a garage connector test well.

From the papers submitted to council members and a presentation at the meeting, we can get an idea of ​​what Musk is considering: cars go down 45 feet via an electric lift.

At the meeting, the company Boring explained that she had acquired a Hawthorne home to test the elevator system. The test site will be for research and development, not for public use.

The test elevator is a way to show the high-speed transit plan of the Boring Company's metro, linking the stations (the elevator base) to the tunnel network on electric skids or nacelles. In this scenario, it is not entirely clear what happens to your personal vehicle, but during the tests, the cars will move underground and go up to a closed garage.

The Mercury News went into more detail to what TBC City Council approved to build in what looks like an unpretentious, palm fringed area of ​​Los Angeles in the Los Angeles area.

All this sounds and looks like a complicated way for commuters to avoid all car traffic, as Musk – who also builds cars – despises.