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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Completes Digging Las Vegas Loop Tunnels
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has completed digging a second tunnel underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, marking the end of the first phase of the $52.5 million project to build a “people-mover” system to shuttle visitors from one side of the venue to the other. The first of the two tunnels was finished in February.
Following a test tunnel at the SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne, California in 2018, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has moved on to richer climates. They have now finished digging the two tunnels underneath Cthe las vegas convention centre, known as the convention centre loop. This ‘people-mover’ transportation system aims to shuttle visitors from one side of the venue to the other in one minute.
Once completed, the people mover will be The Boring Company’s first commercial transportation project in operation, following only a test tunnel next to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The Loop is supposed to be able to move more than 4,000 people per hour through the tunnels in a variety of Tesla vehicles, taking a cross-campus walk that normally takes at least 15 minutes and turning it into a ride that lasts less than two minutes.
Although drivers will be used at first, the system will eventually run autonomously. It will use a variety of self-driving electric vehicles that race up to speeds of 155 mph. This will include Tesla model 3s, model Xs, and a tram-like vehicle built on the model 3 platform to fit between 12-16 passengers.
