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Virginia transit officials have said the state should stick with traditional railways and roads for now after checking out a tunnel dug by Elon Musk's Boring Company. 

Tech billionaire Musk unveiled his plans in December last year and said the future system will make vehicles 'capable of traveling safely at over 150 mph' when complete. 

But Michael McLaughlin, Virginia's chief of rail transportation, said: 'It's a car in a very small tunnel. If one day we decide it's feasible, we'll obviously come back to you.

'We'll give Elon Musk and the Boring Company credit for at least trying.' 

The Virginia Mercury reports the Commonwealth Transportation Board's public transit subcommittee has been looking into the state's rail infrastructure.

They are said to have been considering a $1.3 billion bridge between Virginia and Washington but wanted to see if Musk's idea was more viable. 

Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during an unveiling event for the Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel in Hawthorne, south of Los Angeles

Virginia transit officials have said the state should stick with traditional railways and roads for now after checking out a tunnel dug by Elon Musk's Boring Company

Commonwealth Transportation Board member Scott Kasprowicz made the trip with McLaughlin and public transit chief Jennifer Mitchell. 

He said: 'I think there's a lot of show going on here. I don't mean to suggest that they don't have a serious plan in mind, but I don't consider the steps they've taken to date to be substantive. 

Scott Kasprowicz, a Commonwealth Transportation Board member, said he 'thinks there's a lot of show going on here' 

'They've purchased a used boring machine. They've put a bore in the neighborhood where they developed the SpaceX product, and they've taken a Model 3 and put guidewheels on it and they're running it through the tunnel at 60 miles per hour.

'None of that, I think, is really significant from a standpoint of moving this process forward. The reality is it's a great idea, but I'm not sure its time has come.'   

In December guests boarded Musk’s Tesla Model S and rode about one mile along Los Angeles-area surface streets to what is known as O’Leary Station in his just-completed Hawthorne Test Tunnel.

The demo rides, though considerably slower than the fully executed plan is expected to allow, ran at 40 mph.

Musk said the future system will make vehicles 'capable of traveling safely at over 150mph. At that speed, it will feel like teleporting within a city.'

'For me it was a eureka moment,' he told a room full of reporters. 'I was like, "This thing is going to damn well work."' 

Just as with modern-day traffic signals, red means stop or slow down, and green means it's safe to accelerate

Autonomous, electric vehicles could be lowered into the system on wall-less elevators the size of two cars. Such elevators could be placed almost anywhere cars can go.

A number of autonomous cars would remain inside the system just for pedestrians and bicyclists. Once on the main arteries of the system, every car could run at top speed except when entering and exiting.

Musk began The Boring Company, with its tongue-in-cheek name completely intentional, after announcing on Twitter almost exactly two years ago that 'traffic is driving me nuts' and he was 'going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.'

 

 

 

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