[colinplamondon]

Boring Company seems clearly focused on hyperloops as the long-term goal.

They determined that construction of tunnels would be orders of magnitude faster on approvals than above-ground construction.

With that approach, tunneling construction is the key technological block. With SpaceX and Tesla's know-how, the actual construction of a hyperloop is rather de-risked.

By keeping laser-focused on tunneling tech, they build the muscle around the regulatory process, get cities and states to trust them, and show operational competence in operations.

Once they do a intra-state system in a friendly regulatory environment (FL/TX, ala Austin -> San Antonio or Tampa -> Orlando), they'll built a corporate machine that's tunneling dozens of underground highways across the country.

At that point, building new tunnels as a hyperloop will be a reasonable mid-term goal.

Loop 2020's -> Hyperloop 2030's