Two months after Musk’s announcement, satellite images show the beginning of the first dig. He has the first pit dug on the SpaceX premises in Hawthorne. 15 meters long, 9 meters wide, 4.60 meters deep. Musk deliberately chose his own company’s parking lot. Because he didn’t need a building permit from the city authorities there.
The idea of simply building tunnels is not enough for the billionaire. He wants to revolutionize tunnel construction. Until recently, the company’s website stated that it wanted to reduce the cost of construction by a factor of ten and significantly speed up the process. That statement has since disappeared from the website. Instead, they say they want to develop a machine that can dig seven miles a day, a little over seven miles.