所以，这真正旨在做的是鼓励交通技术创新，让人们对新的交通形式感到兴奋，那些可能与我们今天所见完全不同的东西，但真正只是为了让人们创新，思考不只是重复过去的做事方式，而是探索物理学的边界，看看究竟、究竟有什么可能。我认为我们会发现，它远比我们曾经意识到的更加不可思议。

这确实是这场超级高铁竞赛的总体目的。是的，所以我们有了这个。我听说这可能是仅次于大型强子对撞机的世界第2大真空室。所以这挺令人兴奋的。

然后今天晚些时候，我们会看看这些舱体能跑多快。我认为它每年都会变得越来越好。我认为它最终会成为激励全世界的事物，并催生真正的交通技术，帮助人们改善生活。然后，正如加塞蒂市长提到的，我们开始挖了一个洞。

所以，是的，在克伦肖大道上，就在 SpaceX 总部前面，有一个巨大的洞。

而我觉得地上的洞令人兴奋。

我和我的女朋友讨论过这件事。她觉得没那么令人兴奋，但我觉得真的很棒。所以它就在那里。你们可以去看看。那将成为隧道掘进机的始发井。我们会努力弄清楚怎样才能将隧道挖掘速度提高500%至1,000%，我认为这是可能的。

所以，如果你采用某种有限的物理学方法。那我们就看看能做到什么程度。所以我们只是在摸索着前进。我们完全不知道自己在做什么。这一点我想说清楚。但我们要把这台机器弄明白，好，把它拆开。我们怎样才能在仍然保证安全、不影响地面上的人等等的同时，让它运行得快得多。我们会看看能取得多大进展。但实际上我相当乐观，认为隧道挖掘至少可以提升5倍，也许10倍。

而这对许多技术确实至关重要。公路隧道、超级高铁隧道、火车隧道。

因为从根本上说，在城市里你必须走向3D。如果有高楼大厦，它们全都是3D的。然后所有人都想同时进入大楼和离开大楼。所以在2D道路网络上，这显然行不通。因此你必须向上或向下走向3D，而我认为很可能是向下；至于更长的距离，则可以采用超级高铁之类的方案以及其他想法。

那么，再次祝贺所有人。学生团队所做的一切令我惊叹，真的让我大为震撼。愿最优秀的团队获胜。对。

So what this is really intended to do is to encourage innovation in transport technology, to get people excited about new forms of transport, things that may be completely different from what we see today, but to really just get people to innovate and think about doing things in a way that's not just a repeat of the past, but to explore the boundaries of physics and see what is really, really possible. And I think we'll find that it's way more incredible than we ever realized.

That's really the overarching purpose of this hyperloop competition. And yeah, and so we got the. I'm told this is like maybe the second biggest vacuum chamber in the world after the Large Hadron Collider. So it's kind of exciting.

And then later today, we'll see how fast the pods can go. And I think it's just going to get better and better every year. I think it's ultimately going to be something that inspires the world and results in real transportation technologies that help people's lives and make them better. And then, as the Mayor Garcetti mentioned, we started digging a hole.

So, yeah, on Crenshaw, just In front of SpaceX headquarters, there's a giant hole.

And I find holes in the ground exciting.

I was discussing this with my girlfriend. She didn't find it that exciting, but I thought it was really great. So it's right there. You can check it out. And so that's going to be the start hole for the tunnel boring machine. And we're going to just try to figure out what it takes to improve tunneling speed by, I think somewhere between 500 and 1,000% is, I think, possible.

So if you apply sort of a limited physics approach. So we'll see how far we can get. So we're just sort of muddling along. We have no idea what we're doing. I want to be clear about that. But we're going to get this machine figure out, okay, take it apart. How do we make it go much faster while still being safe and not affecting people on the surface and all that. And we'll see how much progress we can make. But I'm actually quite optimistic that tunneling can be improved by at least five fold, maybe tenfold.

And that's really key to a lot of technologies. Road tunnels, hyperloop tunnels, train tunnels.

Because fundamentally, you have to go 3D in a city. If you've got tall buildings, they're all 3D. And then everyone wants to go into the building and leave the building at the same time. So then on a 2D road network that obviously does not work. So you have to go 3D either up or down, and I think probably down, and then for longer distances, things like the hyperloop and other ideas.

So with that, once again, congrats to everyone. Amazed at what the student teams have done really has blown my mind. And may the best team win. Yeah.