---
title: "Elon Musk: The Second Boring Machine is Almost Ready"
description: "The Boring Company is preparing to introduce a brand new invention — a second boring machine that will dig underground hyperloop tunnels."
date: "2017-10-21"
modified: "2017-10-21"
authors:
  - name: "Brad Jones"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/bradj"
url: "https://futurism.com/boring-machine-elon-musk"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "boring machine"
  - "elon musk"
  - "hyperloop"
  - "the boring company"
---

# Elon Musk: The Second Boring Machine is Almost Ready

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/tunnel-boring-company-borer.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://twitter.com/boring_company?lang=en" target="\_blank"\>The Boring Company\</a\>\</em\>*

Elon Musk has [announced via Twitter](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/920844783542853633>) that The Boring Company's newest invention for tunnel excavation is "almost ready." This, the second boring machine, will be dubbed Line-Storm, a moniker inspired by the poem "A Line-Storm Song" by Robert Frost.

Musk went on to respond to a Twitter user that asked whether [The Boring Company](<https://www.boringcompany.com/>) was a real enterprise. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO confirmed that it was, and stated that a physical tunnel is being created and is [growing longer every day](<https://futurism.com/the-boring-company-just-got-permission-to-extend-their-test-tunnel>).

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

The tunnel being excavated by The Boring Company is a [test site for hyperloop technology](<https://futurism.com/the-boring-company-isnt-just-digging-tunnels-theyre-building-a-hyperloop>). Musk has already shared images demonstrating that the underground tract is large enough for a car to pass through.

Digging tunnels via conventional means would be a big obstacle for the introduction of underground hyperloop infrastructure. Musk is confident that — with help from their new machines — The Boring Company can perform the work relatively cheaply and efficiently. It remains to be seen what kind of advantages Line-Storm offers over [its predecessor, the "Godot."](<https://futurism.com/elon-musks-boring-machine-just-completed-its-first-tunnel-segment>)

Musk has previously stated that he's received [permission from a federal official](<https://futurism.com/musk-reveals-that-verbal-permission-for-the-hyperloop-was-given-from-federal-official>) to continue to expand his hyperloop project. With a [working car elevator](<https://futurism.com/musk-says-the-boring-companys-first-car-elevator-will-be-operating-next-week>) and this new tunneling machine, it seems like all the pieces for his vision for the future of transport are falling into place.