The Boring Company of Elon Musk wants to deliver your car directly to your garage

Developments such as carpooling, car sharing and even vehicle autonomy promise to make transportation easier and safer, but they have done nothing to help with congestion.

In fact, the growth of Uber, Lyft and similar services only aggravates New York City recent cap. Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to help alleviate the problem by completely removing traffic from cars, and its latest development could make your driveway obsolete.

In a warehouse unearthed by The Mercury News and spotted by Ars Technica, The Boring Company was authorized to dig a vertical shaft connecting a residential garage directly to one of its underground test tunnels. The tests will take place on a parcel of land near SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, where the company plans to roll out this radical concept for future underground travel.

The idea would be that you do not even need to drive to the end of your driveway to start your journey: your car could be automatically dropped and then transported by an emission-free electric carrier into a largest tunnel of Boring Company. Then, it will be transported at high speed to your destination, and you will reach the street surface once you are close.

It's a seemingly far-fetched, and recent idea accusations of astroturfing have cast doubt on the intentions of The Boring Company, but Hawthorne's City Council has enough self-confidence to allow the company to test … with a number of provisions: "The company has agreed to Cars entering and leaving the garage from the street Cars enter the tunnel from the SpaceX campus, cross the tunnel and join the garage, then return to SpaceX, so the test process does not create additional traffic in the tunnel. street. "

Musk and The Boring Company have so far provided no indication of what it would cost to install such a system in a residential garage, but for those who must handle LA traffic on a daily basis, there is surely no need for price too high. .