Elon Musk’s name alone is turning Nashville residents against his tunnel project, survey shows

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is tunneling underneath Nashville and residents aren’t happy—particularly that it’s Musk who is doing it.

A new survey by Vanderbilt University found that 35% of Nashville residents generally opposed the plan to use Tesla vehicles, driven by trained drivers, to transport people between downtown Nashville and Nashville International Airport via the Boring Company’s underground Music City Loop.

Yet, when researchers mentioned Musk’s name explicitly...