Elon Musk's Boring Company is hosting a competition to see who can dig tunnels faster than a snail

Get the Full StoryElon Musk's Boring Company plans to host a tunneling competition in 2021.

Participants will race to build a miniature tunnel the fastest and the most accurately.

The billionaire has yet to build any public transit with his tunneling venture, but is close to completing a smaller project at the Las Vegas convention center.

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Elon Musk is hell bent on finding a way to dig tunnels cheaper and more quickly in order to avoid his least favorite thing: traffic.

The billionaire's Boring Company on Tuesday announced a new competition, which appears similar to past Hyperloop contests, wherein teams will race to design and dig a miniature tunnel faster than a snail can slither a feat much more difficult than it sounds.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Why Pikes Peak is the most dangerous racetrack in AmericaSee Also:Car sales have plunged during the coronavirus, but not at Tesla skyrocketing the company's status as the world's most valuable automakerTesla sold 20,000 more cars in the 2nd quarter than Wall Street expected, despite shuttering its only US factory because of the coronavirusElon Musk and his brother double down on misleading coronavirus theoriesSEE ALSO: 2 major casinos want in on Elon Musk's Las Vegas project potentially kickstarting the Boring Company's bid to connect the entire Strip

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