Between 2017 and 2021, Musk’s The Boring Company canceled or postponed similar projects in Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Jose; and one from Baltimore to

Somehow, Elon Musk keeps convincing cities to allow him to dig under them. The latest locale to give The Boring Company the rights to displace dirt directly under their feet is Nashville, Tennessee, which announced an agreement this week to allow Musk’s firm to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect the city’s airport and convention center—an arrangement that has modestly improved traffic flow in Las Vegas while turning the city into a laughingstock of the infrastructure design community.

The nostalgia play, conceived years ago when the world's richest man was still a Los Angeles hometown hero, bows in a radically different era.

Elon Musk's Tesla-themed diner in Hollywood became the scene of an anti-Musk protest on Sunday. Protestors gathered outside the futuristic eatery with balloons resembling Musk that were animated to do Nazi salutes,