The future we're building -- and boring | Elon Musk

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🗓️ 30 April 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in conversation with TED's Head Curator, Chris Anderson.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features serial entrepreneur Elon Musk in conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, recorded live at TED 2017.
0:19.2	Elon. Hey, welcome back to TED.
0:22.6	It's great to have you here.
0:23.8	Thanks having me.
0:25.1	So, in the next half hour or so,
0:28.0	we're going to spend some time
0:29.4	exploring your vision for what an exciting future might look like,
0:34.1	which I guess makes the first question a little ironic.
0:39.1	Why are you boring?
0:52.1	Yeah. I ask myself that frequently. We're trying to dig a hole under L.A. And this is to create the beginning of what will hopefully be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion.
1:00.9	So, I mean, right now, I think one of the most soul-destroying things is traffic.
1:06.0	It affects people in every part of the world.
1:09.3	It takes away so much of your life. And it's horrible. It's
1:15.3	particularly horrible in L.A. And so... I think you've brought with you the first visualization
1:22.4	that's been shown to this. Can I show this? Yeah, absolutely. So this is the first time,
1:27.0	just to sort of show what we're talking about. So this is the first time, just to sort of
1:28.4	show what we're talking about. So there are a couple of key things that are important in having a 3D
1:35.0	tunnel network. First of all, you have to be able to integrate the entrance and exit of the tunnel
1:39.2	seamlessly into the fabric of the city. So by having an elevator, sort of a car skate that's on an elevator, you can integrate
1:51.0	the entrance and exits to the tunnel network just by using two parking spaces.
1:57.9	And then the car gets on a skate.
2:00.0	There's no speed limit here.
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