我在洛杉矶住了16年，交通状况已经从，比如，就像第7层地狱，变成了，比如，第8层地狱。而且，你知道，太糟糕了。终于，终于，终于有了某种东西，某种我认为能够解决这个问题的东西。该死的交通问题。

问题是，比如，为什么是隧道？你知道，有时人们会说，那比如飞行汽车和所有这些其他东西呢？我想说清楚。我们并不反对公共交通。我们认为公共交通挺好。比如，让我们尝试一切可能的解决方案。但隧道的特点是，你可以在地下实现3D交通。城市建造方式的固有问题在于，你有所有这些3D的高楼大厦，然后却必然只有一个2D的道路网络。

这就会造成交通拥堵。没有办法绕开。你必须让交通变成3D。你可以采用飞行汽车。但飞行汽车也有一些缺点。本质上，它就是带轮子的直升机，而且噪音很大。风力也很强。如果周围有一大群飞行汽车，有东西掉到你头上的概率会比没有它们时高得多。隧道的绝妙之处在于，你能挖多深没有限制。

它们不受天气影响。这也是飞行汽车的另一个问题。如果遇到比如下雪、下雨、飓风之类的天气，你突然就哪儿也去不了了。但隧道不受天气影响。有龙卷风也没关系。有冰暴也没关系。地面上发生什么都没关系。如果你在隧道里，你就是安全可靠的，所以你不会听到、看到或感觉到隧道正在施工。

你可以把无聊公司的隧道网络编织进一座城市的肌理之中，而不改变这座城市的特色。

你将拥有这个革命性的交通系统，而你的城市依然会让人感觉还是原来的城市。那么隧道有什么问题？它们通常需要很长时间才能建成，而且非常昂贵。每英里成本最高可达10亿美元。事实上，刚刚完工的洛杉矶地铁延长线，2.5英里耗资20亿美元。所以显然，我们需要采取行动，彻底革新隧道技术。

我们需要能够以快得多的速度、少得多得离谱的资金来建造隧道。这是我们的 Nail。这是 Gary Vi。

事实证明，蜗牛活不了那么久。所以这是加里六世。我们正在做什么来提高隧道掘进速度？在一个小时的隧道掘进中，实际上只有大约10分钟用于挖掘。其余50分钟则用于安装隧道加固结构、铺设轨道、处理物流以及一大堆其他事情。所以，仅仅把管片安装自动化并解决物流问题，实际上就能让隧道掘进速度提高约5倍。

采用我们的设计后，我们还把钻机的功率提高到了3倍，与次优的隧道掘进机相比，这使理论净速度提高了约15。所以，而且希望我们能击败我们的蜗牛。因此，从目标上说，完成这些之后，我们应该会比蜗牛稍微快一点。而且我们有3种隧道产品。

一种是 Loop。那是供运输舱使用的。你们今天晚些时候会试乘。那是交通运输隧道。我们还看到人们对纯粹的公用设施隧道很感兴趣，市政当局可以获得一条大型隧道，然后把供水主管和电线放进隧道里，之后他们就可以实际进行维修。比如，如果供水主管破裂，它不会淹没城市的主街，他们实际上可以进入 Boring Company 的隧道，修理供水主管。

但这从根本上说就是我们试图解决的问题。我们所有人都经历过很多很多次。我们必须解决这种摧毁灵魂的交通状况。所以我们所说的 Loop 由自动驾驶电动汽车组成。自动驾驶电动汽车与可展开导向轮相结合，让车辆能够抵住隧道侧壁，从而即使汽车断电，或者有人发疯，或者发生类似机械故障的情况，它仍然是安全的。

那些导向轮会让汽车保持在隧道中央，确保你能够以非常快的速度穿过隧道，同时仍然安全。但实现3D交通的特点在于，你可以有，比如3条。你可以有，你可以有16条朝同一方向延伸的隧道。所以你想要多少条隧道都可以。而且我很确定，美国所有人不会都搬到洛杉矶，但你确实可以建造足够多的隧道来运送美国的每一个人。

在洛杉矶，没有限制。Loop 的运作方式是设置时速150英里的主干道。只有当你想前往某个出口时，才会驶入出口匝道。基本上，它就像一个地下3D高速公路系统。

萨姆。

至于升降梯，我们的做法是在场外建造。所以这些升降梯是预制的、独立一体的钢结构。因此，要安装升降梯，你只需要在地上挖一个洞。非常快。然后把预制升降梯分段运来，吊下去，连接各个分段，就完成了。不存在某种旷日持久的施工项目。我认为这也很重要。

这样就不会有这类施工项目在城市各处造成干扰。而且我还应该说，对于没有汽车的人，我们会让车辆在 Loop 中持续运行。所以这将会是。实际上，我们会优先照顾行人和骑行者，由车辆在 Loop 中持续循环运行。所以即使你没有汽车，仍然可以使用这个系统。我非常想强调，一个虽小但非常重要的要素是配备可伸缩车轮，平常在道路上行驶时，它们会收起并缩到车底，你甚至看不到它们。

但当你进入隧道后，它们会展开，让你能够非常快速且高效地穿过狭窄隧道，就像一列小火车。所以，这虽然看起来是件小事，却是这项技术中一个虽小但非常重要的要素。这并不是要成为某种封闭花园，也不是只供 Tesla 或类似车辆使用。任何自动驾驶电动汽车都可以配备这些导向轮。对了，为什么自动驾驶会？

这意味着你可以开得非常非常快，并且非常迅速地刹车。比如，我们预计隧道大概可以做到每秒通过1辆车。通常在高速公路上，在没有自动驾驶汽车的情况下，可以每2秒通过1辆车；但通过自动驾驶，我们认为至少可以做到每秒通过1辆车。我的意思是，你可以把这些想成某种虫洞。就像你开车四处转悠时，顺着虫子下去。

我需要去洛杉矶或纽约或随便什么地方的另一边，就进入虫洞，从另一边出来，然后你就可以正常开车了。升降梯本身通常在街上只占用相当于2个停车位的空间。所以，如果只需要拿2个停车位来换一座车站，而我的意思就是，那基本上就是一座车站的大小。因此，你可以把这些车站穿插设置在城市各处，只要有，你知道，几个停车位或一小块路面，几乎任何地方都可以，实际上甚至可以让它们升入地下车库。

然后有一天，它会与超级高铁连接起来，不过那是以后要谈的事。

而我认为，这真正意味着为压垮灵魂的交通负担提供一个切实的解决方案。我认为这是真正能够奏效的东西。它具有可扩展性，而且我们这里有一条演示隧道。我们预计会随着时间推移，把它扩展到世界各地的许多城市，让人们有更多时间陪伴朋友和家人。

我们的演示到此结束。谢谢。

I've lived in LA for 16 years and traffic has gone from like, just like seventh level of hell to like the eighth level of hell. And, you know, it's terrible. Finally, finally, finally there's something, something that I think could solve the problem. Goddamn traffic problem.

The thing is, like, why tunnels? You know, sometimes people say, what about, like, flying cars and all these other things? I want to be clear. We're not opposed to mass transit. We think mass transit is fine. Like, let's try every solution possible. But the thing about tunnels is that you can go 3D underground. The inherent problem with the way cities are constructed is that you've got all these tall buildings that are in 3D and then a road network in 2D necessarily.

This will result in traffic. There's no way around it. You have to make transport 3D. You could go with a flying car. But there are some drawbacks to flying cars. Essentially, it's a helicopter with wheels, and they make a lot of noise. There's a lot of wind force. And the probability of something falling on your head if there are a bunch of flying cars around is much higher than if there are not. The great thing about tunnels is that there's no limit to how deep you can go.

They're weatherproof. That's the other thing about flying cars. If there's like snow or rain or hurricane or something, suddenly you can't go anywhere. But tunnels are immune to weather. It does not matter if there's a tornado. It doesn't matter if there's an ice storm. Doesn't matter what's going on above ground. If you're in a tunnel, you're safe and secure, so you will not hear, see, or feel the tunnels being created.

You can weave the boring system tunnel network into the fabric of a city without changing the character of the city.

You'll have this revolutionary transport system and your city will still feel like your city. So what's the problem with tunnels? They usually take a very long time to build and they're very expensive. Can cost up to a billion dollars per mile. In fact, the LA subway extension that just got completed cost $2 billion for two and a half miles. So clearly something needs to be done to revolutionize tunneling technology.

We need to be able to build tunnels way faster and for a hell of a lot less money. This is us Nail. This is Gary Vi.

It turns out snails don't live that long. So this is Gary the sixth. What are we doing to increase the speed of tunneling? In a given hour of tunneling, only about 10 minutes of the hour is spent actually digging. Then the other 50 minutes are spent erecting the tunnel reinforcements, laying down tracks, doing logistics and a bunch of other stuff. So just automating the segment placement and solving the logistics issues will actually give you about a five fold increase in tunneling speed.

With our design, we've also tripled the power of the drill that results in a theoretical net speed increase of about 15 compared to the next best tunneling machine. So, and hopefully we'll beat our snail. So aspirationally we should be slightly faster than a snail after doing those things. And we have three tunnel products.

One is the loop. That is for transportation pods. And you guys will try it out later today. And that's transport tunnel. We're also seeing a lot of interest in just utility tunnels, where a municipality can get a big tunnel and then put water mains and electricity lines inside the tunnel and then they can actually service. Like if they had a water main break, instead of it flooding the main street in the city, they can actually go into the boring company tunnel and fix the water main.

But this fundamentally is what we're trying to solve. We've all been there many, many times. We must solve the soul destroying traffic situation. So the loop that we're talking about consists of autonomous electric vehicles. The combination of autonomous electric vehicles with deployable guide wheels so that it braces itself against the side of the tunnel so that it's safe even if the car loses power or even if somebody goes crazy or there's like a mechanical failure.

Those guide wheels keep the car centered in the tunnel and ensure that you can go through the tunnel very fast and still be safe. But the thing about going 3D is that you could have like three. You could have, you could have 16 tunnels going in the same direction. So you can have as many tunnels as you want. And I'm pretty sure everyone in the United States is not going to move to la, but you could literally build enough tunnels to transport everyone in the United States.

In la, there is no limit. The way the loop would work is that you'd have main arteries that are traveling at 150 miles an hour. And only when you want to go to an exit would you have an off ramp. It's like a 3D highway system underground, basically.

Sam.

And for the elevators, the way we're doing the elevators is we construct them off site. So the elevators are prefabricated, self contained steel structures. And so in order to insert the elevator, all you do is dig a hole in the ground. Real fast. Then bring the prefabricated elevator in sections, drop it down, connect the sections and you're done. There's not like some extended construction project. I think that's also important.

So you don't have these like construction projects that disrupt the city all over the place. And this, I should say also we will have continuously operating cars in the loop for those that do not have a car. So this will be. We'll actually give priority to pedestrians and cyclists with cars that are continuously circulating in the loop. So even if you don't have a car, you can still use the system. I really want to emphasize that a small but very important element is having retractable wheels that when you're driving down the road, normally they retract and go under the car, you don't even see them.

But when you get into the tunnel, they deploy and allow you to go through a narrow tunnel very quickly and effectively, like a little train. So this, even though it's like a small thing, it's a small but very important element of the technology. This is not intended to be some sort of walled garden or just for Teslas or something like that. Any autonomous EV can be outfitted with these guide wheels. Yeah, and why autonomous will?

It means you can go very, very fast and brake very quickly. Like we expect that you can probably do one vehicle per second through the tunnel. Typically on a freeway you can do without autonomous vehicles. You can do a car every two seconds, but with autonomy, we think you can do a car at least every second. I mean, you can think of these like they're sort of like wormholes. Just like you drop down the worm like you're driving around.

I need to get to the other side of the LA or New York or whatever, drop down the wormhole, pop out the other side, and then you can just drive. Normally the elevator itself only takes as much as two parking spaces on the street. So if you can just have a station in exchange for two parking spaces, and that's what I mean, that's basically the size of a station. So you can interleave these stations throughout cities, wherever there's, you know, a couple parking spaces or a little patch of road, pretty much anywhere you can actually even have them come up in underground garages.

And then one day it will connect to the hyperloop, but that's for another time.

And what I think this really amounts to is an actual solution to the soul crushing burden of traffic. This is something that I think will actually work. It's scalable and we have a demonstration tunnel here. And we expect to expand this over time to many cities all around the world and give people more time for their friends and family.

That concludes our presentation. Thank you.