{"id":78642,"date":"2018-05-14T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/elon-musk-says-la-area-test-tunnel-almost-complete-update"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:10:30","slug":"elon-musk-says-la-area-test-tunnel-almost-complete-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/elon-musk-says-la-area-test-tunnel-almost-complete-update","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says LA-area test tunnel almost complete (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-la-area-test-tunnel-almost-complete-update.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Elon Musk says he\u2019s almost completed a tunnel under a Los Angeles suburb to test a novel transportation system that would scoot commuters underground on electric sleds called skates.<\/p>\n<p>Musk tweeted Thursday that, pending regulatory approvals, free rides will be offered to the public in a few months. He also posted an Instagram video of the interior of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Hawthorne City Council approved an approximately 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) test tunnel from Musk\u2019s SpaceX rocket plant to a point east of Los Angeles International Airport.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-elon-musk-la-area-tunnel.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-elon-musk-la-area-tunnel.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk says he\u2019s almost completed a tunnel under a Los Angeles suburb to test a novel transportation system that would scoot commuters underground on electric sleds called skates. Musk tweeted Thursday that, pending regulatory approvals, free rides will be offered to the public in a few months. He also posted an Instagram video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78727,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78642\/revisions\/78727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}