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Has the Boring Company really achieved anything that is not a flamethrower (not not a flamethrower?) and a slow EV taxi lane under Las Vegas?

It's achieved distracting voters and politicians from proven mass transit technologies.

How does this compare to other companies that dig tunnels?

Per Musk's original introduction of the snail, it's 14x faster than existing boring machines. So TBC did extremely poorly.

Well , yes, that’s how development and improvement work. You have to start somewhere and Improve from there.

Remember, the first SpaceX launch attempts didn’t make orbit. Did that make them quit because they ‘failed’?

Improvement is the name of musks game