{"id":1643,"date":"2020-07-10T04:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2020-07-10T04:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T04:24:22","slug":"the-boring-company-to-host-tunnel-construction-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"The Boring Company to Host Tunnel Construction Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boringcompany.com\/\">It is the aim of The Boring Company<\/a> to build the tunnel infrastructure necessary to enable safe, comfortable, and fast transportation, containing Loop and Hyperloop. To possibly construct a large network of tunnels, one must first quickly innovate to raise tunneling speed and decrease tunneling costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding this issue, The Boring Company is hosting a competition for tunnel construction. This competition challenges teams to come up with tunneling solutions and answer the question, \u201cCan you beat the snail?\u201d The Boring Company is determining interest from everyone (hobbyists, students, companies, etc.) around the world to build, design, and race their own tunneling solution at The Boring Company\u2019s Dig-a-Factory in the first Not-a-Boring Competition in spring 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1645 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Boring-tunnel-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The competition between the teams is to bore a 30-meter tunnel with a cross-sectional area of 0.2 square meters (equivalent to a circle with a 0.5-meter diameter). Winning categories will comprise:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Fastest to complete tunnel<\/li>\n<li>Fastest to complete tunnel and a driving surface (a Tesla remote controlled car will be driven through the tunnel)<\/li>\n<li>Most accurate guidance system \u2013 how far away is the tunnel from its target?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Interested parties can register <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boringcompany.com\/competition#:~:text=The%20Boring%20Company%20is%20gauging,Boring%20Competition%20in%20Spring%202021\"><em>on the website<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Boring Company\u2019s first courage is building a new people mover at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company has expressed interest in constructing vehicular tunnels plus hyperloop systems across the country containing <a href=\"https:\/\/tunnelingonline.com\/boring-company-proposes-dugout-loop-to-dodger-stadium\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tunnelingonline.com\/dot-draft-assessment-baltimore-dc-loop\/\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tunnelingonline.com\/the-boring-company-selected-to-build-and-operate-ohare-express\/\">Chicago<\/a>. In addition, it completed a one-mile test tunnel at its Hawthorne, California, facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Tunnel Business Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the aim of The Boring Company to build the tunnel infrastructure necessary to enable safe, comfortable, and fast transportation, containing Loop and Hyperloop. To possibly construct a large network of tunnels, one must first quickly innovate to raise tunneling speed and decrease tunneling costs. Regarding this issue, The Boring Company is hosting a competition for tunnel construction. This competition challenges teams to come up with tunneling solutions and answer the question, \u201cCan you beat the snail?\u201d The Boring Company is determining interest from everyone (hobbyists, students, companies, etc.) around the world to build, design, and race their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}