First Tesla Cars Entering The Boring Company Loop in Vegas

First Tesla vehicles are spotted driving through the Boring Company's Las Vegas Convention loop.

A tweet by @LasVegasLocally yesterday showed a video with writing, "First 2 Teslas entering The Boring Company tunnels at the Las Vegas Convention Center."

It was four years ago that Elon Musk decided that he had had enough of traffic problems, creating the Boring Company. Musk's goal is to build long underground tunnels that accommodate electric and sustainable transport that can run at high speeds.

In 2017, the Boring Company started to construct a test tunnel that runs about a mile in length and ends up at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The tunnel was inaugurated in late 2018, with Musk driving through it in a Tesla using pop-out guide wheels that helped direct the car through the tunnel. LED strips on the tunnel walls helped give information to drivers about what speed they should be going at.

Since then the construction of more tunnels underneath Las Vegas has been ongoing, and the new tunnels are almost complete. Today, two Tesla vehicles, a Model 3 and a Model X, were spotted by a security camera as they entered the tunnel. This is visible on this tweet:

It looks like Tesla has started to conduct trials inside the tunnels, and is preparing to inaugurate the new tunnels. The latest information released about the project was unsurprisingly from one of Musk's tweets.

When talking about what vehicle would be used for the transportation he said: "We simplified this a lot. It’s basically just Teslas in tunnels at this point, which is way more profound than it sounds." He was then asked about the future of the Hawthorne test tunnel, he made the following statement:
"It’s still there, but the focus is Vegas & Prufrock, our new tunneling machine"

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[dewiz]

The rate of progress of a boring machine is highly dependent on the kind of material it is boring through. In a lot of situations, the process is NOT boring.

[charliedevine]

This will never transport 4, 000 people per hour per direction. I predict it will have a capacity no greater than 1, 000 people per hour per direction an it will require at least 50 drivers.

[michaelwhelan]

You talk about what the stations might look like but you show a flame thrower instead? What the hell is wrong with you?

[markcole]

thank you for the news from Tesla and the boring company in Las Vegas I plan on visiting there very soon. I hope to go in and out of as many holes as I can find.
Your assistance in reassuring me that there are numerous holes to go in and out of is of great joy.
I will use all of these holes with respect and dignity, I just do not know which hole to start with and which hole to finish with.
All of these holes to choose from, is there anybody out there that knows which hole I should go into first and which whole I should go out of last.
Thank you for your help and all the information on the holes to go in and out of in Las Vegas.

[drew]

my question is will we see that bus like vehicle depicted in the pictures soon?

[-A-c]

My fantasy of technical fantasies wants boring tunnel and/or hyperloop going from NYC to SF

[karlthemel]

To establish a new traffic system, a connection Vegas Convention Center to the airport would work best as long as users can get to their hotels this way.

[ronlivaudais]

Takes the phrase, ’there’s a light at the end of the tunnel’ to new light!

[sefacalik]

What i wanna know is does it add miles to your car....

[thejackalsmith]

These tunnels will not stop traffic. You have to stop and put skates on the front tires to stop them from hitting the curbs because the tunnels are way too small.

[larrystahl]

@ the 4:45 mark you said "he tweeted that on February 23rd, 2023" ....

[mmandrewa]

Here is what is coming next:


All of those tunnels have already been approved by the public authorities in Las Vegas. There are a few regulatory agency approvals that remain but there seems little doubt at this point that this is going to happen. It's a large expansion over what has already been built. I don't know what the timeline is but I suspect construction will begin within the next six months and I believe they hope to complete the whole system within a couple years.

I imagine there will be other projects started elsewhere by The Boring Company within the next few years but this expanding network under Las Vegas will be first.

I found this information at nasaspaceflight.com in the thread titled "Elon The Boring Company" which is a pretty good forum for tracking what is happening.

[AdisMedzikovic]

Sooo basically he wants to build a subway? Just with less passengers per "train"

[JustShootLight]

So how many tunnels does he have now?? I know there is at least one or 2 in California.

[kahnfused]

For all you naysayers. If you had a two hour commute to get to work a few miles away, you're Telling me you wouldn't opt for your own private tunnel direct route home ? That after all is where this started.

For those that don't like the idea, stay on your highway and byway. In the end we'll gridlock tunnels anyway. We aren't a smart people.

[JustetocreatifnOt]

Love your videos man I got a question when do you estimate that the robot taxis will be launch ?

[WillNGo]

Always fresh interesting information. Thanks. I can see where this is going. The Boring (bOring?) Company (TBC) is trying to solved the machine tunneling problem. (Which I didn't understand until you mentioned the machine digs for only 10 minutes an hour. ) So mechanical tunneling is really a logistics problem, not a digging problem! (Actually no surprise there. Musk may be the most mature inventor/CEO ever, "The factory is the product" 'It's much much harder to manufacture a vehicle that it is to come up with a prototype.' And from history: "Amateurs talk about strategy, generals talk about logistics.") Based on this I think The Boring Co. is going find as many short length projects as it can as it tunes up the debris removal/structure insertion challenge. And once TBC comes up to speed it's going to create a huge industrial support business supplying panels, concrete, wiring, etc.., because when it's up to speed TBC can start a tunnel almost anywhere to almost anywhere.
I'm also willing to make a ten or 20 year bet that California's north/south high speed rail will eventually become a Boring project and that the tunnels with high speed trains zipping through them will pass by the half completed structures sitting in the middle of not 'no where' but in the middle of 'not many people here.'

[Barskor]

Regular long-distance speeds of 130 mph IRC will need better tires will Telsa Tires be the next startup or the next vertical integration step?

[isthatatesla]

Siegel's Bagelmania. A deli.
You're welcome.

[aloisscheicher]

What sense should it make to build a tunnel from Vegas to LA? Most of the land is barren... and costs a dime. Outside the cities a single lane road mounted on pillars (aka bridge) is not only much cheaper, but also less "boring" to drive for passengers. Short inner-city commuters are one thing. Endless tunnels will drive one nuts!