The Boring Company Celebrates
Milestone With Prufrock II, Aims To Defeat Gary The Snail
Elon Musk is one of the world’s most
renowned entrepreneurs, as he’s the CEO of numerous companies and sits on the
board of directors of various others. For instance, he’s the CEO of the Boring
Company, Tesla Inc., SpaceX, Dogecoin, and Twitter, among others. Not to
mention, he’s single-handedly reviving Vine, making him truly revolutionary, if
not legendary! Therefore, he’s indelibly recognized as a global powerhouse
associated with innovative technology and advanced engineering. The Boring
company was founded in 2016. We’re looking at what the mastermind, Musk, is
working on to eliminate some overlooked critical issues everyone else failed to
see.
Elon Musk posted a video on Twitter
that shows the test of Prufrock II vigorously digging through the ground as he
proudly celebrates with family and friends. Musk stated that the tunnel boring
machine (TBM) seamlessly tunneled from one property to another to test Profrock
II. The tempestuous TBM, designed to tunnel turbulently at an expeditious speed
of one mile per week, has been around Texas for more than a year. The Boring
Company initially shared a photo of Prufrock II tumultuously going off into the
ground in Texas in April 2022.
Why It’s Significant: The Boring Company has an incredibly
awesome initiative to end traffic jams thanks to finding loopholes, meaning
rapidly creating state-of-the-art loops and hyper loops that go superfast to
simplify driving, to be exact.
Musk said, “Our goal is to solve
traffic, which plagues every major city on earth,” in April 2022 about The
Boring Company.
Musk’s sense of worldliness and
strong rootedness in human advancement invokes an instant solution to speed up
traffic routes by creating tunnels to ensure people end up at work or school on
time efficiently.
Now, the company manages a
spectacular tunnel system destination in Las Vegas, Nevada, that predominantly
utilizes Tesla vehicles where clients can seamlessly pay for their uber-cool,
ultra-high-tech underground rides in innumerable ways, such as Dogecoin.
The company plans to expand its
proportions and locations in its Las Vegas operations. Also, the company aims
to increase its tunnel destination reach across the country.
There’s one problem, though, which
is scaling, as Musk noted the company hadn’t solved yet. Musk's mission is to
legitimately overcome “Gary the Snail,” as it’s currently aptly called after
the SpongeBob character. Perhaps hopefully, when it becomes faster, it’ll be
named “Sonic the Hedgehog.” As of now, the snail torments The Boring Company with
his speed or lack thereof. Previously Musk had stated that the main goal is to
get the boring machines to move much faster than a snail’s pace, which can help
reduce costs, increase revenue, and create tunnels at a larger scale.
Although the Prufrock II is quite
swifter than the company’s previous tunnel miner, the capacity of one mile per
week is still far below the fictional character “Gary the Snail.”
Musk said that The Boring Company
could conquer Gary the Snail in 2024.
“In the short term, if each
Prufrock-2 mines at 1 mile/week and TBC produces one new Prufrock machine per
month, then TBC will be introducing 600 miles/year of capacity,” The Boring
Company said in a press release on April 2022. You can find more information on
this project on the company’s website.
The Boring Company raised a whopping
$675 million just earlier this year in a funding round valuing the company at
$5.67 billion. It was said that the funding would help with hiring notably
over-the-top staff and vastly improving the scale of operations.
The funding will assist the company
with creating Prufrock III, which the company said could have a possible
movement goal of seven miles per day, which is a lot & much better than
Prufrock I if you ask us.