Elon Musk’s newest Boring Company pitch includes a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio

Elon Musk lately claimed that his tunneling startup The Boring Company is engaged on “a easy precursor Hyperloop” between Austin and San Antonio that can cut back the journey between the 2 cities to lower than half-hour.

The Boring Company account shared Musk’s statement and mentioned it “can be excited and honored to construct this huge development projects mission.”

Many of The Boring Company’s introduced initiatives — together with tunnel techniques in Chicago, Los Angeles, and between New York City and Washington, D.C. — have not materialized. However, it does function a transportation system combining tunnels and floor routes in Las Vegas, and it lately raised a $3 billion round led by the United Arab Emirates.

Musk’s feedback a couple of potential Austin-San Antonio Hyperloop have been really in reply to an AI-generated video depicting a generic science fiction future with human colonies on different worlds. Musk re-posted the video and declared, “This is the longer term we will carry into being”.

Musk’s critics have argued that his imaginative and prescient of the longer term is outwardly impressed by pulp science fiction and comedian books; historian Jill Lepore recently told me that he appears to favor sci-fi that “utterly defeats and defies all of his political views.”