Elon Musk believed that this was something that was going to work. But it's really served to distract from projects which could much better solve these problems. Silicon Valley really gets away with selling us a lot of ideas for how they are going to transform society. We've got an incredible opportunity to try to uphold a legacy in Silicon Valley of changing the world and disrupting the world.
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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