Noelle King: There's a real problem in how we've elevated Elon Musk to be this figure who is presenting these grand futures. She says he feels that he's completely outside of the law of scrutiny. King: It's time for us to wake up and have the difficult conversations to actually solve real problems.
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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