We’ll soon learn if Elon Musk’s high-speed tunnel plan is a serious effort to relieve traffic congestion or little more than a fancy theme park ride. Musk has announced a big unveiling event for December 18 that will show off not only a tunnel but also a ground-to-tunnel car elevator and an autonomous passenger pod.
Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday that the Boring Company’s first test tunnel for its high-speed transit system will open for public viewing on December 18 — a week later than originally planned.
The billionaire entrepreneur and CEO said that besides the tunnel, it will also unveil “fully legal autonomous transport cars,” thought to be the pods for carrying passengers through the tunnels. You can see them in the video above.
We’ll also have a chance to check out the system’s special elevators designed to take regular vehicles and the passenger pods between the street and the transportation tunnel.
The expectation is that a day after the launch event, members of the public will be offered free rides through the tunnel.
Running for about three miles, the test tunnel is being constructed in Hawthorne, California, the home of another of Musk’s business ventures, SpaceX.
