Article is pretty short-sighted. The overall goal of the Boring Company is to substantially decrease the cost, and increase the speed of building tunnels. This is something that benefits public transit.<p>Sure the initial demo where a slightly modified Tesla traveled through the tunnel is not practical, why does that matter?<p>The challenge is digging tunnels quickly and efficiently, even if hyper-loop tech does not come to fruition, efficient tunnel digging can be used with traditional high-speed rail tech. Compare the state of underground transit in the US vs. other countries, there is clearly substantial room for improvement here.
How often have the experts confidently told us that something Musk was planning to do would be a complete failure, and turned out to be wrong? Pretty often, I would say.