We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoElon Musk has unveiled a tunnel beneath suburban Los Angeles that he considers to be his first step towards slashing car journeys through the world’s gridlocked cities. The billionaire entrepreneur believes that tunnels, not flying cars, offer the best and safest means of sidestepping future congestion on our roads and, two years after proposing a tunnelling company as a joke, he appeared convinced yesterday that he was on the right track. “Traffic is soul destroying, it’s like acid on the soul, it’s horrible,” Mr Musk, 47, told hundreds of guests assembled in a car park by the tunnel entrance to witness the start of his subterranean transport revolution. “I’ve lived in LA for 16 years and traffic has gone from the seventh level of hell…

Source: The Times December 19, 2018 09:00 UTC