Every Prufrock that leaves the factory has over 1,000 changes from the one before it. Before it ships, we put it through a full Porpoise Test (PT) in Bastrop — a short test tunnel (typically under 200 rings) that lets both the design team and the test team gather real data on the new designs and on the specific Prufrock serial number. To date, we’ve completed six of these tests and Prufrock 5 is currently 200 rings into PT7. Once complete, the tunnels are put to use: • PT4 is now a vacuum tunnel for Hyperloop testing • PT5 is a live test bench for liner trucks and new belt systems • PT6 is a pedestrian tunnel connecting SpaceX to Hyperloop Plaza With porpoise testing, our engineers get to get hands on and stress-test every one of their designs in real world environments without ever leaving Bastrop. We are currently hiring Electrical, Mechanical, Test, and Software engineers. Link to apply in the comments below 👇

Part 3 of our first-ever recorded tour of @boringcompany HQ, we go inside the control room and I get to drive the liner truck using a PS5 controller. Shout out to Steve, @Mike__Baier and the Boring Team for these incredible insights! Join the Boring Company at Part 1 of this video is here: Part 2 of this video is here:

Shameless daily plug for you guys to apply. We are looking for: -Welders -Electricians -Mechanics -Machinists -Production assistants -Electrical engineers -Software engineers (full stack & controls) -Test engineers -Test Technicians -Mechanical engineers

The real genius of the Loop is that it’s true point-to-point. You can enter at any station and go directly to any other station. No transfers. No fixed routes. No stops. The number of stations between you and your destination is irrelevant. That’s a fundamentally different model from trains or buses.

You guys aren’t applying fast enough so I’ve decided to grow my own TBM engineers. Read count for this page on how TBMs work is approaching triple digit territory. Hiring all Roles — from Welders to Electrical and SW engineers. DM me or apply online:

Vegas loop point-to-point transport is so efficient that time to enter the vehicles is a significant percentage of the overall time people spend in the system. Just having people keep the doors open when they leave the car adds about 15% extra throughput to the system.

Join the team building the most advanced tunneling systems in the world and the autonomous transportation network of the future Tunneling doesn’t get much main frame attention, but it solves the most blood-sucking problem people face every single day - the traffic nightmare The Boring Company is closing in on its goal of tunneling faster than a snail moves, unlocking the third dimension beneath cities currently trapped by congested two dimensional road networks... The amount of progress this team has made in such a short time in this field is impossible to believe This is one of the fastest moving engineering teams in the world and they are hiring across all roles If you are a scrappy problem solver who wants to build the future, this is an insanely rare opportunity

Right now, only a small percentage of the Vegas loop is open and we already do about 40,000 passengers a day on a busy convention day, which is more than the majority of light rail systems in the US.  In a few months we will open the airport connector tunnels, which are two of the longest transportation tunnels built in the US in the last 25 years, and we believe ridership will 3x-4x as a result. At that point Vegas loop would be in the top 10 of public transportation systems in the US based on ridership (and on its way to top 3 or 4 as we open more and more of the system).

Watching the starship launch with my kids on the couch while simultaneously watching a sky crane dropping HVAC systems onto the new starlink facilities out my living room window is surreal. What a time to be alive.

Yes. The liner truck uses a model 3 battery back (or two batteries depending on the liner truck model) and a slightly modified model 3 rear drive unit. We just take the differential out and replace it with a spline but other than that it’s basically stock. The drive unit acts as the primary mover for a hydraulic pump that creates the fluid power needed to rotate the trucks 4x hydraulic motors. All of these details and more in the @teslaownersSV video that came out yesterday as well:

@teslaownersSV @boringcompany Was AWESOME to have you here. Can’t wait to show you what’s coming next! We are hiring for all roles shown in this video + more. DM me or check out our careers page:

One of my pet peeves is when my guys say “happy Friday”. It instantly makes me wonder why they are even here. Reading this post made me realize that for years I’ve actually been looking forward to Friday’s just to watch the latest All In. Maybe I’ve been to hard on the team 😂