Innovators will always be a step ahead as visionaries -- given their outrageous and absurd ideas. Take Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; stuck in traffic, Musk thinks the ultimate solution for American vehicle congestion is by way of creating tunnels under cities instead of overpasses. In his Twitter account, he shares ideas of building "The Boring Company" focused on creating traffic-decongesting tunnels.
According to Ars Technica, Elon Musk first tweeted about traffic "driving him nuts" and about "building a tunnel boring machine" and escape the huge congestion in the area. Ars Technica believes that Musk -- still in traffic an hour later -- created a witty pun in the form of creating "The Boring Company" and that "boring (holes), it's what we do."
Musk takes his intentions further and he said in another tweet that he is "actually going to do this" and reportedly included in his bio the word "tunnels" right after "Tesla, SpaceX." Ars Technica took this as something that he might like to implement aside from his "Hyperloop" supersonic train idea -- also meant to fix public transportation.
In London, former London Mayor Boris Johnson proposed that the British capital's traffic problem could look at tunnels to ease the situation itself. He proposed that digging two east-west tunnels would help remove car traffic from the streets. Sweden's Stockholm is also looking to create a north-south highway across the city.
According to The Atlantic's City Lab, building new roads that would ease current traffic new car sales from different manufacturers could defeat instantly. In England's Surrey, the city of Guildford looks to self-driving vehicles -- currently on heavy research -- to be the solution everyone needs to get more cars off the road and decongest traffic. The "Internet of Things" (IoT) allows cars to connect to each other and "sense" the presence of one another without human error -- preventing possible car accidents and actions that may cause traffic.
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