馬斯克揭開首條地下交通隧道的神祕面紗

Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel last Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube -- the tech entrepreneur's answer to what he calls "soul-destroying traffic".

上週二，埃隆·馬斯克揭開了他打造的地下交通隧道的神祕面紗，允許記者和受邀嘉賓成爲這條儘管顛簸但頗具革命性的地下管道的首批乘客。這位科技企業家希望藉助這種地下隧道來治癒他所說的“破壞靈魂的交通”。

Guests boarded Musk's Tesla Model S and rode along the tunnel.

客人們登上一輛特斯拉Model S，沿着隧道兜風。

The demo rides were considerably slower -- 64 km per hour -- than what Musk says the future system will run at: 240 km per hour.

儘管馬斯克表示，未來這一軌道系統的時速將達到240公里，但試乘時汽車的時速要慢得多，僅爲64公里。

The car jostled significantly during the ride, which was bumpy enough to give one reporter motion sickness.

汽車在行駛過程中顛簸不已，導致一名試乘的記者開始暈車。

Musk touted the newly finished 1.83 km tunnel segment as a breakthrough in low-cost, fast-digging technology being pioneered by his nascent tunneling firm, the Boring Company.

馬斯克稱讚這段長1.83公里的隧道是他初創的隧道挖掘公司“無聊公司”在低成本、快速挖掘技術上的突破。

Musk put the total price tag for the finished segment at about $10 million, including the cost of excavation, internal infrastructure, lighting, ventilation, safety systems, communications and a track.

馬斯克表示，這段完工隧道的總造價約爲1000萬美元，其中包括挖掘、內部基礎設施、照明、通風、安全系統、通訊和軌道的成本。

By comparison, he said, digging a mile of tunnel by "traditional" engineering methods costs up to $1 billion and takes three to six months to complete.

他表示，相比之下，用傳統工程方法挖掘一英里長的隧道，成本高達10億美元，需要3到6個月才能完成。