The Boring Company just lowered a Tesla Model S into the ground using a car elevator

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Instagram late Tuesday evening to demonstrate The Boring Company’s newest car elevator. The serial tech entrepreneur posted a video showing what appears to be a driverless Tesla Model S Summon itself onto a platform, before being lowered into an underground tunnel.

This is the first time we’re seeing a working proof of concept by The Boring Company, which comes less than three months after Musk first revealed details about his futuristic tunnel-boring project. Speaking at TED 2017, Musk gave the audience a visualization of the project that would enable a car to be lowered into the ground and transported on electric skates through a network of tunnels. According to Musk, the underground transportation network could have as many as 30 layers of tunnels, and can be used to support a Hyperloop.

Testing The Boring Company car elevator

A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Jul 25, 2017 at 11:26pm PDT

Though Musk’s ambitious tunnel boring project has received criticism from various city officials and regulatory bodies that have considered Musk’s plan a pipe dream, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has had more “promising conversations” about the project. Los Angeles is earmarked as one of the more complex areas that Musk’s The Boring Company will have to navigate when it comes to regulatory approval. The densely packed cities, vocal residents and fears over the unsubstantiated effects of earthquakes on tunnels contribute to the problem.

Tunnel walls

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