Elon Musk’s Boring Company gave the media a first look at the Las Vegas Loop, and it was very boring.
The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, The Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project, has been completed and is about to begin commercially.
Musk’s startup for tunneling completed the $ 50 million project in just over a year
A Boring Company Loop system consists of tunnels in which Tesla drives autonomous electric vehicles at high speeds between stations to transport people within a city.
While the ambition is to have complex tunnel systems among entire cities, the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is only 3 miles long with three stops, but the hope is to eventually connect it to a larger Loop system under wider Las Vegas, especially the Strip and the airport.
This week, they invited local media to try the loop for the first time, and some shared videos:
The consensus seems to be that the name is appropriate, as the experience is quite boring. The vehicles do not go faster than 35 km / h, and they are not driven autonomously.
The Boring Company has previously talked about speeds of more than 120 km / h and the vehicles themselves driving inside the tunnels.
For now, the fleet of 62 Tesla vehicles using the loop has drivers.
The company has released this very short video to explain the complicated process of telling your driver where to download:
While certainly boring, it demands an impressive ability to move 4400 people per hour through the massive conference center.
Eventually, the speed may increase as Tesla moves to an autonomous version of the system, and the rides may become longer as the Loop expands.
Late last year, the expansion of the Las Vegas loop was approved, and it is expected to happen fairly quickly with the ability of the company’s latest boring machine to reach one kilometer of tunnel per week.
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