Dubai unveils underground 'Dubai Loop' with Elon Musk’s Boring Company

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Dubai has announced a big new project with Elon Musk’s company, The Boring Company. The project, called ‘Dubai Loop,’ will be an underground transport system that helps people travel quickly across the city. It will connect the busiest areas and make travel smooth and easy.

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Omar Sultan Al Olama, the UAE Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Vice Chair of the World Governments Summit, shared this news on Thursday. He said the Dubai Loop will help people move from one place to another without any trouble.

Elon Musk joined the event online and said the Dubai Loop will feel like a “wormhole.” He explained that people will enter a tunnel at one spot and quickly reach another place. “It will be like a magic door—you go in, and boom, you are in another part of the city. It will be amazing,” Musk said.

The Boring Company, which Musk started in 2016, builds underground tunnels for transport. The goal is to fix traffic problems in big cities by creating fast-moving underground systems.

Right now, it is not clear if the Dubai Loop will be the same as the one in Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, Musk’s company has made tunnels where Tesla cars drive people from one place to another at high speed.

One big question about this project is safety. People worry about how tunnels will handle earthquakes and bad weather. Minister Al Olama asked Musk about this, and Musk said tunnels are one of the safest places during an earthquake.

“Earthquakes mostly happen on the surface, like waves in the ocean. But if you are underground, it’s like being in a submarine during a storm—you are safe,” Musk said. He also gave an example of an old earthquake in Mexico City, where underground tunnels stayed safe while the surface had damage.

Musk also said tunnels are better than roads during bad weather. Sandstorms and heavy rain can stop flights and road travel, but tunnels keep working.

“If there is a big storm, flying cars and airplanes can’t move. But tunnels don’t have this problem. No matter how bad the weather is, tunnels work fine,” Musk said.

Musk also talked about a very extreme case—a nuclear war. He said tunnels would be the safest place in such a situation. But in daily life, the main benefit is reducing traffic and making travel easy.

Musk explained why tunnels are better than flying cars. He said cities already have tall buildings, but roads are still flat, which causes traffic. The solution is to use the space underground.

“You can either build flying cars or make tunnels,” Musk said. But he warned that flying cars could be noisy, unsafe, and affected by bad weather. Tunnels do not have these problems.

Musk’s company has already made a working tunnel system in Las Vegas. There, the tunnels connect important places like hotels, the convention center, and the airport.

Minister Al Olama joked that people don’t have to go to Las Vegas to try the tunnel system. The Dubai Loop will let people experience it right in their own city.

This project is another big step for Dubai to become one of the world’s smartest cities. While the full details of the Dubai Loop are not out yet, the partnership with Musk’s company is expected to change how people travel in Dubai.