Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio

埃隆·马斯克为“无聊公司”提出的最新构想：在奥斯汀和圣安东尼奥之间建设超级高铁

Elon Musk recently claimed that his tunneling startup The Boring Company is working on “a simple precursor Hyperloop” between Austin and San Antonio that will reduce the journey between the two cities to less than 30 minutes. The Boring Company account shared Musk’s statement and said it “would be excited and honored to build this massive infrastructure project.”

埃隆·马斯克近日声称，他旗下的隧道挖掘初创公司“无聊公司”（The Boring Company）正在奥斯汀和圣安东尼奥之间筹划建设一个“简单的超级高铁先导项目”，旨在将两地之间的通勤时间缩短至 30 分钟以内。“无聊公司”的官方账号转发了马斯克的声明，并表示“非常激动且荣幸能承建这一宏大的基础设施项目”。

Many of The Boring Company’s announced projects — including tunnel systems in Chicago, Los Angeles, and between New York City and Washington, D.C. — have not materialized. However, it does operate a transportation system combining tunnels and surface routes in Las Vegas, and it recently raised a $3 billion round led by the United Arab Emirates.

“无聊公司”此前宣布的许多项目——包括在芝加哥、洛杉矶以及纽约市与华盛顿特区之间的隧道系统——大多未能实现。不过，该公司目前确实在拉斯维加斯运营着一套结合了隧道与地面路线的交通系统，且近期还完成了由阿拉伯联合酋长国领投的 30 亿美元融资。

Musk’s comments about a potential Austin-San Antonio Hyperloop were actually in reply to an AI-generated video depicting a generic science fiction future with human colonies on other worlds. Musk re-posted the video and declared, “This is the future we shall bring into being”.

马斯克关于奥斯汀至圣安东尼奥超级高铁的言论，实际上是对一段人工智能生成视频的回应。该视频描绘了一个充满科幻色彩的未来，展示了人类在其他星球建立殖民地的场景。马斯克转发了这段视频并宣称：“这就是我们将要实现的未来。”

Musk’s critics have argued that his vision of the future is apparently inspired by pulp science fiction and comic books; historian Jill Lepore recently told me that he seems to favor sci-fi that “completely defeats and defies all of his political beliefs.”

马斯克的批评者认为，他所构想的未来显然受到了通俗科幻小说和漫画的影响；历史学家吉尔·莱波雷（Jill Lepore）最近对我表示，马斯克似乎偏爱那些“完全推翻并违背他所有政治信仰”的科幻作品。