<Tr> <Th> Products </Th> <Td> Infrastructure </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> boringcompany.com </Td> </Tr> <P> The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by Elon Musk in 2016 . Musk has cited difficulty with Los Angeles traffic and limitations with the current 2 - D transportation network as inspiration for the project . </P> <P> Elon Musk announced the existence of The Boring Company in December 2016 . By February 2017, the company had begun digging a 30 - foot - wide (9 m), 50 - foot - long (15 m), and 15 - foot - deep (4.6 m) testing trench on the premises of SpaceX's offices in Hawthorne, California, since construction on its site would not require any permits . When told by employees on a Friday afternoon that it would take at least two weeks to move staff cars in the parking lot and start digging the first hole with the Boring Company tunneling machine, Musk said "Let's get started today and see what's the biggest hole we can dig between now and Sunday afternoon, running 24 hours a day ." Later that day, the cars were gone and there was a hole in the ground . </P>

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