---
title: "Hold Up, Boring Company Is Making Tunnels For Cars Now?"
description: "Today, Elon Musk's Boring Company tweeted a video of a car zipping through one of its tunnels in California. It's different than the original plan."
date: "2018-06-14"
modified: "2018-06-15"
authors:
  - name: "Sarah Marquart"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sarah_fqtq"
url: "https://futurism.com/boring-company-musk-green-light-malibu"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "boring company"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tunnel"
---

# Hold Up, Boring Company Is Making Tunnels For Cars Now?

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tselatunnel.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Boring Company/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

Welcome to Elon Musk's latest "Public Utilities But If I Owned Them" venture: Claustrophobic nightmare highways! Or at least, that's what the Boring Company's recently-tweeted video shows:

https://twitter.com/boringcompany/status/1007325971689758720

The clip comes on the tails of this morning's announcement that the Boring Company [scored a contract](<https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619993903/elon-musks-boring-company-will-build-high-speed-train-to-chicago-s-o-hare-airpor>) to build a tunnel connecting downtown Chicago to O'Hare airport, though it's not clear if the video in the tweet is connected to the news (there's no talk of linking Chicago to Malibu quite yet).

Indeed, the tweet prompted a fair amount of confusion. This video shows "The Loop" version of the technology, as described on the [company's website,](<https://www.boringcompany.com/faq>) where "electric skates will carry between 8 and 16 passengers (mass transit), or a single passenger vehicle."

However, it doesn't really look like the skate in the original demo video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5V_VzRrSBI

An electric skate, according to the [Boring Company's FAQ](<https://www.boringcompany.com/faq>), is supposed to be "a platform on wheels propelled by multiple electric motors." In the newest video, though, you can see a rudimentary platform whooshing the car along. It looks nothing like the platform in the initial plans, but it is a platform nonetheless.

Does this video mean the design for cars has been altered? Or this is simply a new way of testing the track? And what is supposed to happen to pedestrians who were initially supposed to be ["prioritized"](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/972233079342297088>) over cars?

Yes, this video raises more questions than it answers. But that's probably the point. In time, we'll probably find out whether, in this version of Musk's reality, Boring tunnels are now just for Boring cars, too.

*Update 6/15/18 11:22 AM: The original version of this article didn't acknowledge the rudimentary platform visible in the video. But, as a reader pointed out, there* is *a platform there* — *the car is not in contact with the tunnel directly. Thanks for keeping us on our toes, guys!*

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