My first ride in the Boring Tunnel Loop in Las Vegas

The Boring Company has opened it's first fully-operational Loop under the Las Vegas Convention Center. I jumped in a Tesla to take a spin.

[cube]

"it's kinda cool, there's like LED lights"

The boring company's projects in a nutshell

[jeycalc]

The disadvantages of cars without the advantages of a train. Genius!

[salentino]

Someone should really invent trains that go underground. Maybe call them Metro or something like that...

[Aiyahhh]

Could you imagine if they made the cars bigger so you could transport 100+ people at a time with the same tunnel concept?

Oh wait that's called a train

[TESkyrimizer]

"future of transport"
what's next? horse-drawn carriages and covered wagons?

[TransitAndTeslas]

So a subway train, but way less efficient than a regular bus.

[gsharks]

Hmmm, isnt that basically a bad alternative to a train?

[elokubano]

So basically it's a...tunnel. Mindblowing.

[sunil]

America and its unending fascination with cars, instead of building a good mass transit (Metro) like every other major city, you have tunnels dug out to drive cars at 70 kmph. The irony is just uncanny

[alhitmi]

Americans will do anything except high speed trains 🤣

[mikethomas]

How does Elon come up with these mind bending ideas. A tunnel you can drive a car through. Next he will advocate mass sanitation systems and a series of pipes where you can just turn a tap and water comes out. Go Elon go

[jamesleate]

A high speed (35 mph), autonomous yet human driven taxi in a tunnel that has 2.5% of the efficiently of a metro system.
The guy is a genius.

[gabrieltassi]

That looks really cool! Now imagine connecting a bunch of those cars together. And maybe make each car a little longer with wider doors so more people can ride it. And with extra seats!!

Being a bit extreme now, forgive me, but imagine putting a rail on the ground so the cars ride on the rail making it safer, and instead of using rubber tires that degrade quick, steel wheels that last a long time!

Hope someone invents that. He/she will be a genius!

[OhioCentralModeler]

Elon "invented" a worse subway. Seriously, just dig the tunnels, slap down some tram tracks, and you have a way more economical system to operate.

[cjames.m]

so the boring tunnel sure lives up to its name..

[Asheface]

"my first ride in the boring tunnel"
Proceeds not to show the whole ride

[nicolaspardinamarco]

Why wouldn't be traffic jams on that tunnels, and if someone has a flat tire everyone has to stop.

[guyski]

Imagine that instead of using electric cars (which only hold a few people each) - you used electric trains (which can carry 100's of people each) - and we could call it a "subway"

[vikhneshar]

I feel bad for the drivers of these tesla

Driving all day through a tunnel at 35miles/h
Ufff...

[jimbo]

"capitalism breeds innovation"