Elon Musk’s goal for The Boring Company is to solve one of the most miserable daily experiences on Earth: traffic Cities are three-dimensional But transportation is still mostly trapped in a two-dimensional surface network Roads, intersections, bottlenecks, traffic lights, accidents, construction, weather - everything gets stacked on the same flat layer until the entire system chokes The Boring Company’s answer is simple but radical: Go underground Build fast, low-cost tunnel networks under major cities and turn transportation into true 3D infrastructure Right now, the focus is on making tunneling dramatically faster and cheaper with machines like Prufrock, which is designed to mine continuously while installing tunnel liner at the same time But the long-term vision goes much further Local Loop tunnels could move people across cities without surface traffic, while future Hyperloop-style systems could connect entire cities at ultra-high speed Imagine going from Los Angeles to San Francisco, New York to Washington D.C., or Dubai to Abu Dhabi in a fraction of today’s travel time - underground, electric, direct, and protected from surface congestion That is the real mission: Building the missing third dimension of transportation This is how you actually attack soul-destroying traffic at civilization scale