Paris Marks: Elon Musk is trying to solve traffic with the boring company. He says it's very naive to think that just building a load of tunnels is going to solve the problem. It's also going to be incredibly expensive even though he claims that he would bring the cost down, writes Marks. "It's much more likely to be what these projects end up looking like" said Marks.
Elon Musk created The Boring Company to fix traffic, but his fantasy of underground Tesla tunnels is running on empty. Curbed’s Alissa Walker and author Paris Marx explain.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, edited by Matt Collette, and hosted by Noel King.
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