Musk says he will start digging tunnels, and The Boring Company is born
After a post about being stuck in Los Angeles traffic, Musk began a tunneling project that became The Boring Company.
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On December 17, 2016, Elon Musk said in a post on social media that, frustrated by Los Angeles traffic, he was going to build a tunnel boring machine and start digging.
The effort began as a side project at SpaceX and was soon spun out as The Boring Company. It bought a boring machine and dug a test tunnel next to SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters.
Its best-known project is the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, which opened in 2021 and carries passengers in Tesla vehicles through underground tunnels.
