This is what’s in Elon Musk’s brain right now

Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has been digging deep into the future of travel — and he thinks some marvels will arrive sooner than many would expect.

Motoring from Los Angeles to New York City in a fully autonomous car?

By the end of 2017, he predicted during an interview in Vancouver on Friday as part of a conference sponsored by TED, the non-profit that provides a forum for a wide range of ideas by leading thinkers.

“November or December of this year, we should be able to go from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey,” said Musk, who is CEO of Tesla, the luxury electric-car maker which is trying to stay at the cutting edge of self-driving technology, according to remarks provided by TED.

Underground car travel via a network of new tunnels excavated by a Musk start-up he dubs The Boring Company?

Cars carrying passengers at 124 mph atop skate-like platforms will whisk through the tubes, as seen in a video that accompanied Musk’s appearance Friday. He wasn’t as specific about a time frame on that one. The cars slide onto the platforms at street level, descend down an elevator and then they automatically go flying through the tunnels. Speaking of tunnels, Musk has also supported the idea of a hyperloop, which are tubes that he envisions connecting cities where people could fly along in comfort at jetliner-like speeds.

And how about the Tesla semi-truck?

Coming in the fall. A teaser im- age released Friday showed a shadowy big rig with headlights like those on Tesla’s Model X and Model S autos and a continuous design across the truck’s front cabin, TechCrunch reported.

“With the Tesla Semi, we want to show that an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi,” Musk said Friday.

It’s not the first time Musk has made big predictions at TED. During a 2013 appearance, Musk, also CEO of rocket maker Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, talked extensively about manned missions to Mars.

As part of a conference sponsored by TED, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX made several big predictions for the future of transportation.