In 2016, Musk launched his subterranean tunnel-drilling enterprise after becoming fed up with the traffic in our surface world. O Tuesday, the Boring

Elon Musk's Boring Loop is finally transporting passengers in Las Vegas

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2021-06-11 20:00:08

In 2016, Musk launched his subterranean tunnel-drilling enterprise after becoming fed up with the traffic in our surface world. O Tuesday, the Boring Company opened its first underground Loop beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center. 

The concept is surprisingly simple: Avoid gridlock by taking traffic underground. Simplify the transport experience by putting high-tech vehicles (read: Teslas) on a one-way loop and delivering on-demand rides. Dig tunnels where once there was dirt. 

The experience is also… surprisingly simple. Get in the car, drive through a tunnel, get out the other side. But while it's not exactly the high-speed robo-taxi of the future that I'd hoped for, there's no doubt that this is the future of convenience. 

The 1.7-mile Vegas Loop consists of three passenger stations (two above ground, one below), connected by stretches of 12-foot-wide tunnels, all lit with color-changing LED lights. Inside the Loop, a fleet of 62 Teslas circles around, picking up and dropping off passengers and turning a 25-minute walk across the mammoth convention center into a two-minute ride in all-electric comfort.

While the Boring Company unveiled its first tunnel in late 2018 in California, this is the first Loop that is fully operational and open to the public (although passengers need to be attending a convention at the LVCC to be able to ride). 

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