The Internet Is Laughing At Elon Musk's New Idea That Involves Building A Tunnel To Dodger Stadium

WIRED- Getting to Dodger Stadium is a nightmare, even for a city where traffic is a way of life. Vehicles back up for miles. Brake lights outshine the sun. Exhaust pipes spew pollutants, choking up the 110 freeway and Sunset Boulevard, as cars notch forward inch by inch. It’s the sort of inefficiency Musk abhors, particularly when it’s him sitting in the middle of it. That’s why he is announcing that his Boring Company plans to dig a tunnel to the stadium, through which fans would ride in pod-like electric skates.

The 3.6-mile tunnel would pick up near one of three LA Metro subway stations and run under Sunset Boulevard, ending in the stadium parking lot and making it far easier to take public transit to the game. Fans would pay about a dollar for the four-minute ride, called the Dugout Loop. This project is just a single tunnel, meaning the service can only run one way at a time. It’ll stage a number of skates at one end and sell tickets with fixed departure times. When fans turn up (hopefully riding the Metro, biking, or walking), they’ll pile into the 8- to 16-passenger pods, which will whisk them through the tunnel. The skates will then be parked at the other end. After the game or concert, they run the other way.

So Darren Rovell tweeted this last night. Elon Musk wants to build a 3.6 mile underground tunnel to Dodger Stadium that will cut people’s commute time from one hour to 4 minutes. If it sounds too good to be true that’s because it is. It’s the most typical Elon Musk idea to ever come out of Elon Musk’s brain. “Hey let’s just build an underground tunnel! No more traffic! It’s so easy! I’ll get it done.” He won’t. This tunnel will never happen.

This is about the time in the blog where I rant and rave about how people are so dumb for believing anything Elon Musk says. I stomp my feet and yell into the abyss about how people need to see Elon Musk for what he is, a complete and total fraud. The biggest fraud we’ve seen in centuries. He’s a guy who makes promises, gets positive press for the promises then does nothing. People never call him on his bullshit (except me). But then something amazing happened last night.

Look at some of the replies to Rovell’s tweet

Those responses made me feel like a proud papa. I’m smiling from ear to ear just reading them again. I’m almost crying. People are finally catching on to what a loser Elon Musk is. Turns out a guy can only make false promises for the better part of a decade and not deliver before folks are like, “Wait, none of the things he promises ever happen. The fuck?” I’m just happy everyone is finally seeing the light. I look forward to seeing how this Dodger Stadium tunnel doesn’t happen at all.