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Loop Security. The United States Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration awarded The Boring Company’s LVCC Loop the Gold Standard Award, the highest rating possible in a review that evaluates 17 categories of security and emergency preparedness.
Hyperloop Test Tunnel - Hyperloop Pod Competition. The Hyperloop Pod Competition was an annual competition sponsored by SpaceX and The Boring Company from 2015–2019 in which student teams and hobbyists participated to design and build a subscale prototype transport vehicle, demonstrating technical feasibility of various aspects of the Hyperloop concept.
The LVCC Loop — a three-station transportation system consisting of 1.7 miles of tunnel — was built in approximately one year, using the now-legacy Godot tunnel boring machine. The system's twin tunnels, two surface stations, and one subsurface station cost approximately $47 million (firm-fixed price).
Prufrock is designed to tunnel at a speed greater than 1 mile per week, which is 6 times faster than The Boring Company's previous generation TBM (Godot+). This is still 4-5 times slower than a garden snail...but Prufrock is catching up! Prufrock’s medium-term goal is to exceed 1/10 of human walking speed, which is 7 miles per day.
May 4, 2023 · If Boring can’t meet the 4,400 people-an-hour target, the company faces stiff fines: $300,000 per trade show for a maximum of $4.5 million. Musk has simply recreated underground the same failed ...
Apr 19, 2019 · It says eight to 16 tunnel boring machines could get the whole thing done in 15 to 23 months, depending on the company’s ability to improve its tunnel boring tech. (Compare that to the eight ...
The Boring Company is a group of individuals that share a passion to reinvent the tunneling industry to improve transportation and infrastructure. We are making high-speed tunnel transit a reality in the 21st century.
