llien
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Chicago has chosen Elon Musk's tunnelling venture called - you guessed it - the Boring Company - to build a high-speed underground commuter system from the city centre to O'Hare airport.
The system will use 16-passenger vehicles called "skates" that will travel up to 240kmh (150 mph) through an 18-mile tunnel and cut the journey time from up to 45 minutes to just 12. It will supposedly operate every 30 seconds, 20 hours a day, the company said.
The plan, which still requires regulatory approval, will be formally announced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel later.
Mr Musk's venture won the contract - its first - over a consortium of five firms.
BBC
I could imagine the companies in the "boring" business to be royally pissed off about these news, as the way Musk's B.C. had started is nothing short of an insult:
Anyhow, as far as claims of B.C. go they use some secret sauce (even ignoring the "anticipated" machine):
The first three boring machines used by The Boring Company are:[26]
- Godot,[11] a conventional tunnel boring machine, used for research purposes.
- Line-storm, a highly-modified conventional boring machine, a hybrid design, boring 2–3 time faster than pre-2018 boring machines.
- Proof-rock, a "fully-Boring-Company-designed machine",[26]:52:03 anticipated to be ten times faster than conventional boring machines, with hopes of making it even faster. Currently under development as of May 2018.
