In this situation, Nashville would become the second city where The Boring Company has opened such a system, with the first being Las Vegas. The company has spent the last few years in Sin City, working on the opening of tunnels around the Las Vegas Convention Centre, and is now claiming to have given 3 million rides in Tesla to date.
Musk launched The Boring Company in 2017, and since then, it has taken many forms. In the original video in which Musk was detailing the idea on how to set private on YouTube showed vehicles were shown getting removed from the surface street gridlock by an elevator-meets-sled system and lowered into a three-dimensional underground network full of tunnels. Musk’s company also claimed that during the first Trump administration, the Boring Company received “verbal govt approval” to dig the tunnels from New York City to Washington, DC, leveraging hyperloop technology and offering the possibility to get the trip done in under 29 minutes.
However, this never happened. The Boring Company left the project and its plan of digging a major tunnel system underneath the greater Los Angeles area after they received pushback from locals. A similar thing also happened in Chicago, and as a result, The Boring Company has essentially ignored many other cities around the country.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that the governor’s office cites The Boring Company’s safety record obtained in Las Vegas in the announcement, as the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration have reported “recently earned a 99.57% safety and security rating”, according to the press release. Yet, the trouble that Musk’s tunnel-digging effort has experienced during construction.
For some of the workers, the pace at which the company operates has been a concern, as both The Boring Company and the Tennessee governor’s office praised the same fast-paced rhythm for the projects, reported TechCrunch.
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