The Future: My first ride on the Las Vegas Loop Boring Company Elon Musk Tunnels from Resorts World
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2024
- I'm thrilled to share my exhilarating experience of embarking on my maiden journey through the Las Vegas Loop, a revolutionary transportation system developed by The Boring Company, founded by visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk. My adventure begins at Resorts World, and with anticipation entering the Hotel, I set out to locate the entrance to the tunnel system, which is very close to the Strip.
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As I navigate through the surroundings of Resorts World, I engage in a casual conversation, discussing the intricacies of Elon Musk's tunnels and expressing my fandom. The atmosphere is filled with excitement as I prepare my loop ticket, a necessary element for accessing the innovative transportation network.
Upon entering the tunnel system, I take you on a visual tour, capturing the essence of the underground infrastructure. Amid the walk, discussions ensue about video equipment, loop experiences, and the overall economic impact of the Loop on the city of Las Vegas.
The journey unfolds with insights into the user experience, including QR code scanning and interactions with Loop staff. I delve into the intricacies of the tunnel's construction, sharing observations about smoothness and possible improvements. The conversation becomes a mix of admiration for the tunnel's design, its economic viability, and discussions about potential enhancements.
As the ride progresses, I engage in conversations about the challenges faced by drivers, emphasizing the precision required for navigating the tunnel system. Discussions also touch upon the autonomous features of the Loop, its speed limits, and destination instructions, offering a comprehensive overview of the technology powering this transportation revolution.
The narrative takes a broader perspective as I reflect on the potential impact of the Loop on Las Vegas traffic, particularly during conventions. A comparison is drawn between the Loop's efficiency and traditional travel times between convention halls, highlighting the transformative potential of Musk's transportation vision.
I envision a future where the Loop expands beyond its current scope, covering more areas of the city and possibly incorporating autonomous Cyber Trucks. The excitement culminates as the ride concludes at the Central Hall station, where I laud the convenience and efficiency of the Loop system.
The video concludes with me exploring the CES conference, expressing gratitude for the opportunity to attend after several years. The overall tone is one of enthusiasm, as I envision the continued growth and impact of Elon Musk's innovative transportation solutions on urban mobility.
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$5 plus a 21 minute video to replace a 16 minute walk on google maps.....its the future!
It was 6 minutes of actual riding, and only because they didn't yet activate the tunnel from West to Central yet, it's there you can see it in my video, it's just not active yet. Cut that down to about 3 minutes once they have activated that part. And the tunnel back from West to Resorts World is also done just not activated yet. That would also cut down the time even further. The $5 is just a temporary way to limit how many people use the one-way tunnel, to keep congestion at that point to low, as soon as they open the two-way tunnel from Resorts World they can make it free. Or charge people. Whatever. The Monorail costs $10 per day, I'd much rather use $5 per day Vegas Loop! That's even cheaper than the daily bus price in Las Vegas, and the bus is impossible to use to get to the convention center during a busy conference.
@@charbax From where you started to the station of the west hall took 11 minutes on your video. Plus another two minutes to walk from the station to the hall - 13 minutes. Google maps says its a 13 minute walk. Nothing saved, $5 spent. I'm sure it will get better when the other two links are completed. And then they can employ many more drivers and attendants.
It will be at least another 3-4 years before they get anywhere near along the strip (if they ever do). Their Prufrock 3 machine is currently 10 weeks into the assembly process at Giga Texas; whereas their website says it will take 2 days. It's supposed to excavate at a mile a day, lets see how far they are out on that count. I expect it will average about 10m a day for the 300m crossing at Giga Texas.
@@davidsalisbury50 sure, it's just the start. Going from Venetian to Central Hall takes 40 minutes walk and can take over 40 minutes sitting in a shuttle bus during the busy days of a trade show. Same thing from other Las Vegas hotels back and forward and to the convention center and etc, when Las Vegas is busy at big trade shows, traffic is so congested it doesn't move at all nearly it's just crazy. I have been going to Las Vegas for the CES trade shows since 2010 and it's just insane traffic, especially considering their event is so large they have to add more and more hotel convention centers to add enough exhibitor spaces, so people spend way too much time in traffic! The Las Vegas loop will connect any Las Vegas destination to any other destination in less than 5 minutes, it's going to be revolutionary. What I experienced now is just a small taste of what is to come. I am hoping they get quite a few more stations ready by CES in January next year already! It depends if the prufrock3 is deployed massively to add more stations in Las Vegas yet by that time in the next few months or if it'll take another year or two after that for them to reach more.
@@charbax I admire your optimism, however tha facts don’t support it.
Look how long it has taken them to get this far.
It gets a lot harder from here.
Prufrock 3 is busy in Texas for the next 3 months, then removal and a refit. It doesn’t arrive in Vegas until August at the earliest, then 2 months to prepare, digging in October.
No new stations this year I’m afraid.
Once their investors realise they are just another TBM company, with nothing unique to offer in terms of construction, their money will dry up.
@@davidsalisbury50 They can produce multiple tunnel digging machines and use them in parallel, it's all a timing they have planned out that also lines up with the release of the Tesla robotaxi product. So if the Robotaxi is released in 2025 that is when they will need to have more stations ready. If the Robotaxi comes in 2026 then that would be the timing. Boring Company has unlimited resources if needed, they already have demonstrated a huge price advantage. With each new generation of the prufrock things are only going to get better and faster.
Ontario Airport made the good decision with ditching the tesla loop. HSR and Heavy Rail ftw
Must've been someone on drugs like Rob Ford who thought it would be a good idea to make that decision, anyways it's not like Boring Company is able to take orders yet, they got to design and build the appropriate tunnel boring machines first. Toronto has world's third worst traffic congestion, so good luck with that. 😁
Because they rely too.much on cars...
Thanks for the video. Just took my first ride in the LV loop boring tunnel this morning. It was awesome. We literally had the same driver as you did. He also mentioned an eventual multi-passenger vehicle being developed for the tunnels that would be autonomously driven. That is the key. Once autonomous vehicles can be used in the tunnels the cost to operate will drop substantially. Autopilot can already to 95% of the drive. FSD is needed to do the last bit, pulling into the pick up and drop off areas. With FSD 12 they are getting close.
I think FSD is already working and good enough, I think for the tunnels they are just waiting for the new tunnels to more destinations to be completed and for the dedicated robotaxis to be launched. I guess they might switch to FSD in the tunnels with Robotaxis at some point aroubd 2025 or 2026, once those more things are ready..
The LV convention loop was on time and four times cheaper than the next lowest bid.
Compare the Vegas Loop (not convention loop) to the Central Subway, SF CA $1.95 billion, 1.7-mile extension, over 3,600 day construction timeframe (equally long planning phase). It took them a good 2 years after the digging and concrete was done and it appeared to be ready before it was actually done (track work, electronics systems etc.).
The Vegas loop will cost taxpayers zero to install and Boring will pay the city yearly. Every other city in the USA- mass transit is expensive to build and taxpayers heavily subsidize the operations.
Taxis and Uber type services are utilized everywhere in the world for a reason. This taxi won't have to deal with weather, intersections, pedestrians etc.
They're able to build many tiny stations so it doesn't take so long to get to a station and you're much closer to your destination and you're above ground when it's over so door to door is much faster than comparable mass transit.
Stations in a subway are extremely expensive and time-consuming and boring stations are the opposite
Innovation is exactly the correct word. U are very literate brother. Most of your audience has confused innovation and invention.
We have tunnels. How is this the future of transportation?
And what globally critical things happen in Las Vegas?
I was the biggest proponent of the Pod Car system since more than 2 decades ago. This is the ultimate podcar system. Everybody gets from point A to point B with zero slowdowns, no red lights, no having to walk or transport yourself to overcrowded stations, no need to stop at every station, no changing train lines forever to reach your destination, this system is 10x faster than all current public transportation system, and it's also 5x faster than only using the current ciry road network in a car.
as for global critical things in Las Vegas, it's the worlds biggest convention town, and that means its traffic system is horrible. By fixing traffic for free in Las Vegas, it's a perfect demonstration for all city planners to experience on their next conference travels to Las Vegas, which will make them all contact the Boring Company to purchase such tunnels for their city too.
Because EVs don't produce any exhaust and are less likely to catch fire so the diameter can be reduced.
@@johntheux9238 metro trains don’t have an exhaust and are far less likely to catch fire as they don’t have huge lithium batteries in them.
But they do only average 40-50km per hour. About the same as the Loop.
@@davidsalisbury50 metro trains don't take you from point A to point B. Just as for car traffic congestion, so do metro trains get congested in peak hours of use, and it's very very uncomfortable to stand squeeze yourself between tons of people in a metro.
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I think I'm fine with "good old" several lane tunnel roads, with sufficient space to handle emergencies, sophisticated ventilation systems to handle fires, a phone every once and while. There are reasons they are built like that. Just slap a substantial toll on them and no more congestion.
The current systems don't work. Every single city is completely congested right now. Too many people want to live in cities and everybody wants to have a car. There simply is not enough space on city roads now. And this will only get worse, even if you spend trillions of $ building more roads it won't get resolved. The best road system in the world that I know of is Dubai and even that is completely congested. These tunnels, in my opinion, if they can make them at the price and speed that they claim, makes sense for every city worldwide.
The reason is that people are driving ICE cars inside. Electric vehicles are way less likely to catch fire and don't produce any exhaust.
@@charbax Unfortunately they can’t do either.
They have produced about 2.7 miles of tunnel so far in around 4 years.
Texas is 2.5 months into a 300m tunnel with virtually no constraints and they haven’t excavated an inch yet.
Cost is about $20m a mile (not including stations or junctions which are far more expensive). About the same as a 12 foot tunnel anywhere else in the world as materials and plant costs are fairly fixed. Labour and overheads are highly variable of course.
@@johntheux9238 tunnel fire design is based on the fire load not exhaust or frequency of fires. EV’s are therefore now a big concern for road tunnel designers. They burn hot and are self propagating (they don’t extinguish if you starve them
of Oxygen). The linings are designed based on Hydrocarbon fires over a 1 hour period. Electric battery fires are far more intense and hotter and will destroy the lining causing the tunnel to be far more likely to suffer catastrophic failure and collapse.
Designers and fire engineers are currently struggling with the potential we are unleashing on our infrastructure. Not to mention the additional load on car parks that they were not designed for.
@@davidsalisbury50 The cost per mile of Boring Company is already 100x lower than cost per mile of other subway tunneling projects such as the one in LA. They can only get that price down further with improvements to come.
Good video. Thanks for posting.
Traffic in American cities is mind-numbing boredom. Imagine the joy of turning a high-stress, unsafe 45-minute trip into stress-free, safe 1-minute trip. Dig it.
12 passengers is the minivan based on the cybertruck plateform. The robotaxi will be the $25'000 vehicle.
Well, I guess both will be robotaxis.
Yes minivan based on cybertruck platform, without a bed or as I think could be more easily done, just build:
- Exactly based on current cybertruck, just make seats more plasticky or resistant to many many passengers and their potentially more or less dirty wears, easy to clean automatically too.
- Remove steering wheel, might be stored in glove compartment, can be used in case of emergency.
- Remove stuff in front center to provide for up to 3 comfortable passenger seats on front row
- Add a glass coupola on top of the bed of the Cybertruck, for maximum transparency
- Just put two 3-seater benches facing each other in the bed of the cybertruck.
- Remove the back-window in the Cybertruck so the 6 people inside the car can speak and hear from the 6 people in the bed benches and it makes all 12 people can hear eachother throughout the trip.
This way, groups of upwards 12 people can travel together nicely.
I think the best way to organize is you need to open the LVLoop app and click your destination if possible in advance of entering the tunnel, you can add more passengers to your group when "ordering" the ride. It then tells you simply which parking gate which Tesla is standby waiting for you. If there is a payment to be done in the LVLoop app, can be don this way too. I think the payments could happen in this way:
- Free ride if you don't mind hearing and seeing ads on your whole ride. The advertiser then pays the $2-3 cost of the ride.
- Agree to pay a small fee and you can then choose what music/video to play in the ride instead of having to listen to the advertising. You can also choose to have a silent ride and to deactivate all the transparent windows to just enjoy the sounds and lights of the tunnel only.
"Instead of building a subway for people, how about we make a subway for Teslas?"
The tunnel size needed for autonomous cars is about 3 times smaller than tunnels for Subways, that alone makes the tunneling cost a lot less than 3x less, maybe 30x less, and other improvements in tunneling efficiency, is why Project Boring Company Tunneling is about 100x cheaper per mile compared with regular Subway tunneling. Then comes the fantastic advantage of having your private ride take you exactly from your point of departure above ground, then drive down into through the tunnel exactly to your point of arrival without any interruption, no stations to stop through, no need to connect to/from stations to your point of departure and destination, this improves the traveling speed and the efficiency by 5x to 10x compared with regular subway systems, as potentially millions of people will be taken exactly from departure point to destination point at much speedier, smoother method. The only reason fewer of these car-sized tunnels might be required, is if self-driving cars significantly reduce traffic congestion on regular roads, by their also being very efficient just like that above. We will see, I think a mix of car-sized tunnels will always be useful regardless of how efficient and smooth these self-driving cars manage to reduce traffic congestion above ground.
@charbax I'm not even gonna correct you, because you wouldn't even understand it
My jaw is on the floor of how dumb this whole idea is. Notice the ONLY people who support this are those with no experience in traffic, transportation, urban planning, engineers etc. WOW
For sure that people involved in the current transport network failures of cities don't like to notice such disruptive tunneling technology appear, not that it'll take away their jobs but it'll show how much better things can be.. 😃
As to having experience stuck in traffic, we all have that horribly boring experience, stuck in slow slow slow car traffic, it's the same horrible problem in EVERY city, they add too many cars and there is no way to fit all of them on the existing road systems at peak times such as morning and late afternoon, as all companies thought it makes sense for everyone to work at the same friggen time!!
These tunnels are the only solutions I have seen that can solve that.
@@charbax Dude, we have these things called "busses" and "trams" and "bikes" and "trains". I know you hate coming into any kind of contact with other people, but that's on you.
@@AardvarkDK Busses and trams don't move in traffic. They're a joke in for example Geneva you can't get around in them. Bikes are mostly too dangerous to use, the bikes are excellent in Copenhagen and maybe in 1 or 2 cities in the Netherlands, but everywhere else bikes are dangerous and if you want to stay alive I'd not recommend using a bike. as for trains, they can be a problem and not suitable for the city, usually it's to get you far far away from a city, then trains can be fine, but trains aren't good at getting you from point a to point b unless you're the 1% who just happen to live right next to train station and you need to go always exactly to a point just next to another train station, so for 99% of people trains don't work. Nope we need something better, for cities and for outside cities too!! It's quite simple really, just have self-driving robotaxis pick you up from your home and they go autonomously into tunnels once you get closer or if you're in the city. That's it! No slow downs, they get you at fastest possible speed from any point a to any point b. Throughout any city and from outside cities too!
@@charbax "Busses and trams don't move in traffic."
You obviously don't get out much. They called "dedicated lanes". Look it up.
"Bikes are mostly too dangerous to use"
Ah yes, cyclists get murdered by cars and the BIKES are to blame. Of course. Also, walking really should be illegal in the US since so many pedestrians keep getting murdered.
"as for trains, they can be a problem and not suitable for the city"
These are typically referred to as metros or subways. And they work extremely well for millions of people. They are just capable of using them without filming themselves and going "AWESOME!" every five seconds.
@@AardvarkDK Busses and Trams take 200% more time that going by car in average Dedicated lanes doesn't help much, if any. Bicycles kill over 150 people each year in Denmark, and that's the place with the absolute best Bicycle infrastructure in the world. I love biking in Copenhagen, but I wouldn't recommend it to unskilled riders, even with all dedicated bike lanes, it's very dangerous, worldwide. As for subways/metros, I like them but they're also often not faster to get from point a to point b compared with taking a car, even in traffic. Because you add 15-20 min in average walking before and after subway, you add 5-10min innaverage for connections as one line often isnt enough, and subways/metros get disgustingly crowded whenever most people need to take them, which is during peak.
" I am from Switzerland so I know a bit about tunnels " 😆
Yes with its 57 km, the Swiss tunnel called the Gotthard base tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in the world, for example. 😊 In Switzerland we have 1300 tunnels with a total length in excess of (1242 miles) 2000 km. 😃
Whats that means?
Unfortunately he clearly didn’t know anything about tunnelling. e.g. “the boring company tunnelling machines (TBM) will be all electric”. ALL TBM’s are electric, they always have been.
Claiming they tunnel 100x cheaper, that they can go much faster. All complete nonsense. They build cheap tunnels at the same price as similar size tunnels. Which are generally used for sewers and water transfer. Ask yourself HoW are they doing it cheaper? Where is the saving. Labour? Plant? materials?
These costs are fairly similar across construction. They build small, low capacity tunnels. That cannot be scaled to move any significant numbers of people.
@@davidsalisbury50 San Francisco Central Subway cost $920 million per mile
Los Angeles Regional Connector Subway cost $920 million per mile
Los Angeles Purple Line Phases 1-2 Subway cost $800 million per mile
BART to San Jose (proposed) Subway cost $780 million per mile
Las Vegas Loop cost $10 million per mile.
That makes the Las Vegas Loop 100x cheaper per mile!!
There are no tunnels similar anywhere in the world. The tunnels you talk about for sewers and water transfer are surely a lot smaller and have NOTHING to do with transporting of self-driving cars under a city.
The @BoringCompany can save all this money because they are the FIRST project that optimizes the tunnel boring machines to be as efficient as possible boring tunnels that just fit the size of a regular car, and nothing more. This has NEVER been done anywhere in the world.
And in terms of scale, they can run 10 cars with 120 people per minute per tunnel, they can run 86'000 people per day per tunnel, and with multiple tunnel routes, this could be multiplied towards several hundreds of thousands to millions of people transported per day.
Not only does this benefit every person that gets transported in the tunnels, this massively frees up all the roads above making all regular traffic on city roads much less congested. That means all taxi rides, all Ubers, all Busses, all Cyclists, all pedestrians, all Subway lines, ALL WOULD RUN MUCH SMOOTHER throughout the city. Not to mention CO2 emissions would be reduced by something like 30% overnight.
It's a no-brainer.
..it was all about the sceptics in cali… saying it would be a noisy situation…
#voters
otherwise we would have that hyperloop to #SF
As I commented on another post. The LV Monorail was torpedoed a long time ago by the taxi companies, thus it never made it to the airport and thus it is just a gimmick, not using it's full potential. Just as a reference, the WDW Monorail, which actually was used in Vegas, handles 150k people a day easily.
However, the tunnels are just a bigger gimmick. Just imagine a football game at Allegiant stadium and 1000 people entering at Resorts World. That would easily be 200 car loads. People from casinos in between would have to wait to let these cars pass or merge into traffic....very efficient. To haul 70,000 people into the stadium, it would take days. Not sure how people cannot see this and fall for this scheme.
The 1000 people from Allegiant stadium to Resorts World would use about 80 self-driving Tesla rides in the tunnel, with 12 passengers in each ride. You only need something like 20-30 cars to make that work as they keep going back and forward between the spots, zero slow downs, as all people won't be leaving the stadium at exactly the same time, spread those 1000 people out over like 20 minutes or so. A ride that would take 30+ minutes in a busy traffic and cost $40-50 with Uber surge pricing, will be done in 2 minutes for less than $2 (price shared among the for 12 people per ride) using the tunnelled self-driving Tesla. And, people will be able to go exactly to the destinations they want, all cars will be parked somewhere further away and the self-driving Teslas will bring people exactly to and from their car to the stadium. No wait whatsoever, as these Self-driving Teslas will be able to exit the Tunnels and find parking spot, no need to wait in any type of queue, ever. The tunnels will allow each car to move at full speed with zero slow downs ever, as they're self-driven they can even move quite close to eachother, you can move possibly 1200 people per minute, 100 self-driving Teslas per minute through the tunnels 100% safely in that way.
@@charbax Sorry, you didn't get my point. What about the 1000 from Bellagio, Caesars, Wynn.... How would that work? Would there be congestion in the tunnels? Would there be multiple tunnels in each direction? Would they have to merge the vehicles? Multiple tunnels would add way more cost and to not get in each others way, you would have to go further and further down, adding to the cost. Also, when you say 20 minutes to get the 1000 people, the stadium holds 70,000. So I guess you have to start standing in line a day before the game. It is just not scalable! As with all things Musk, the waste of energy and resources is enormous as you would need a huge lot of vehicles that, on not to busy days, just stand around. And, never forget. As soon as you put transportation into the hands of a company, their goal is to make money, not to benefit the public. Further down the line you can say goodbye to cheap tickets as there is no government body to regulate this madness.
@@gloofisearch One tunnel can move 1200 people per minute. So 3 tunnels starting from Allegiant Stadium, could clear 3600 people per minute. You've transported all 70'000 people away from the stadium or to the stadium in about 20 minutes or so. But consider probably more than half of the attendees just want to walk, so it means all 35'000 people are moved in 10 minutes or so. Of course you get on the ride that takes you exactly to your destination, while you walk up to the rides, it automatically synchronizes all the passengers going to each hotel, going to each destination, that ride non stop takes you all the way to your destination, unless for example some people want to get off in front of the hotel and some other people prefer to get off on the back of the hotel, or something like that. Why I say there are 3 tunnels for example from Allegiant Stadium, cause there could be entrances to tunnel on each side of the stadium, some tunnels going down the strip, other tunnels going paralel to the strip, or going over the airport south of the strip, it'll route you to the appropriate tunnels based on your destination, obviously. A city like Las Vegas always has a need for all these self-driving cars, as busy events, trade shows or sport events happen more of the self-driving robotaxis will use the tunnels, but as Las Vegas becomes less busy, those same robtaxis might do rides for people above ground without always needing to use the tunnel network. Basically the tunnel network are only needed when there's plenty of traffic above on the street. The more they can manage larger crowds, this tunnel network will allow Las Vegas to double, triple, quadruple their income as more and more people will be able to visit the city, as the city will thus have capacity for more and more people to be there, the tunnel network will bring business to down town, to ranges of hotels that could be further and further away from the strip, as when transport becomes so fast and smooth, people don't need to stay as close to each other as previously was a reason to put everything right onto the strip.
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Right now, I think it's fair to say that you're really just paying $5 for the novelty of riding in the tunnel. I also think it's way too soon to reach positive or negative conclusions on this. More tunnels and stations (Strip and downtown) have to be completed before an honest judgment can be given.
I think an underground train would make more sense than this.
Would cost much more, would not allow for stops at every hotel and at every useful destination for example, or would have too many stops and slow down the travel speed for everybody, and wouldn't have enough capacity for peak convention demand..
@@charbax Plenty of cities in Europe have subways with stops and they carry lots of people fast. There’s no reason why Vegas couldn’t afford a modern subway system, especially on the strip. This Vegas loop is a gimmick. It would make more sense if they had a vehicle that would accommodate more people.
@@feszty Subways in Europe can barely hold peak capacity, it's uncomfortable, it's slow, it's inefficient. The Las Vegas Loop is supposed to have about 80 stations, you'd never be able to do more than 4-5 stations using a regular Subway system, which defeats the purpose as you'd need upwards of half an hour just to walk or get a Uber just to reach a station, and during conventions where 150 thousand + people gather around the Las Vegas strip, there would be huge queues to even get onto the Subway. I have been using the Las Vegas Monorail to get to the CES convention for 14 years, and in the mornings, there are queues sometimes much longer than half an hour, just to get on the Monorail, with the Las Vegas Loop you would not need to walk far to find a station and you'd never need to wait to get on the Loop and it would bring you immediately with no stops directly to your desired destination, that makes the ride 10x faster and 10x smoother than any Subway would. And the Loop costs 10x less to build than a Subway system.
@@charbax You clearly have no idea about transportation systems
@@feszty I have plenty idea about transportation systems thank you very much. Yes subways are cool, I love my subway system in Copenhagen, but it took them 25+ years to build it and it will take them 50 years to pay for it. Something like that. It's crazy. And yet it does NOT solve the last mile problem. As even within Copenhagen, most residents live more than 1 mile from a station, which means it takes people over 20+ minutes just to get to a subway station, which defeats the purpose and which means people still need to use their cars for Personal Transport need. When I try to take the Subway in London, in Paris, or in Berlin, it's not particularly a nice experience, there are a lot of people there, everybody staring at their phones, and at peak times in morning or late afternoon, it's completely packed with people, very uncomfortable. And there is a reason all these cities still have huge traffic problem, it's because the Subways are NOT ENOUGH to solve the transport problems of the city. So I simply think all these cities need to also get the Loop systems built out underneath the city, this way it can take off more than half of the cars from the streets, only that will solve the traffic problem.
Mask is not that smart. In Vegas Boring company should make multiple exits brunching at the end of the tunnel, eliminating the bottle neck. That should increase the cost of the entire project. The slow down at destination point is expected, that's why multiple exits are needed. It is cheaper to make multiple exits on the surface, but if the surface space is limited, then you have to dig them underground or perhaps building a 5 story highway tower with multiple exits like in China at the modern bridge exit. So it definitely needs a multiple exit upgrade and depending on purpose it might need spiral parking garages at the destination points. So if the slow down speed at the end 5 - 10 miles/h and desired tunnel speed is 100 m/h, then 100/5= number of end exits you will need. Speed trains in Moscow metro run every 30 sec. - the tightest at 70km/h, but with the train you have enormous volume, unlike with the car, wile tunnel capacity is the same. So car transport is a very wasteful way in comparison to a metro and should be designed differently with multiple branches and multiple exits at destinations. USA highways are clattered because they were not designed properly for high traffic at destination points and lack multiple exits, because those are costly and if you make them underground, even more so. Perhaps a flying car would be a solution, but you need an autopilot navigation to avoid the air collissions.
What a pathetic joke!
The only joke is that it took so long before someone decided to create a true podcar system. It should've existed since decades, but I did not expect it could be done in tunnels, this is absolutely awesome.
@@charbax LMFAO!
@@Stikibits the joke is to look at the traffic of all the human driven cars in every city. I mean just look how pathetic it looks like, all these people going at 1 mile per hour. Look at their faces how depressed the current road system makes them.. I've been riding bicycles in Copenhagen for 3 decades because it's much faster than driving a car in Copenhagen, and that is just a small city. That is the joke.
@@charbax k
I'm, sorry but this looks terribly ineffective. This could be done with a regular buss on a regular road for much cheaper. This is slow, expensive to build. Requires many people to run. This is just tech Bro nonsense by Musk that cost the tax payer 50mil ifi remember correctly
I've been taking busses around CES for 14 years, and same ride takes 45 minutes on the bus, with extremely long queuing. And if I need film few videos at Venetian then few videos in LVCC and few videos in West hall and back at Venetian and from/to my hotel it would mean I would spend over 2 hours in traffic!! This solves it all and now I can go from my hotel to the convention center in 1 minute. Same from from Airport to my hotel in 2 minutes and potentially for free instead of with a $20 Uber. Same thing about going from the Convention Center to all the Private Meeting rooms at hotels all around the strip. It used to be something that would take up an hour just to get from one spot to the other! Busses solve nothing!! And these cars will be 100% self-driving, they could be self-driving today but they keep that for the Robotaxi which I expect Tesla to unveil later this year and it could basically be Cybertrucks with 2 benches and a window dome for 6 extra passengers in the bed of the cybertruck. Modified cybertruck for no steering wheel, no driver, 3 passengers on front seat. All comfortably and 100% safe! Also, they arebuilding the tunnels 100x cheaper than conventional tunnels, because of the size being smaller and the tech they optimize for tunneling being a lot cheaper. And the tax payer is not paying a single dollar, Elon Musk is funding the whole network under Las Vegas, onky the hotels have to pay each their stations if they want a station, they all want stations, some stations will be underground like that LVCC Central Station, other stations will require a ramp and simply occupy a bit of regular parking space next to the tunnel entrance
Your opinion is shit and you telegraph your idiot bias against Musk
maybe little practical in most downtowns in US because they are not crowded and dense like in other countries, and building anything underground gets crazy expensive
@@charbax that seems like an advantage of subways (or any other dedicated roadway for public transport) rather than the "Hyperloop", it should be the same if it was a network of people movers on bridges and likely cheaper to maintain
@@charbax these are just lies from elon to pump the stock, robotaxi will never come, not this year, not next year, never.
Paypal was a horrible idea, tesla was a horrible idea, spacex was a horrible idea, ai was a horrible idea, and now boring is a horrible idea too huh?
Hahahahah.... This has to be the dumbest idea ever. I can't even believe that a city used tax payer money on such a terrible idea. I hope musk patented this genius idea..... The tunnel.
Tax payers pay exactly $0 for it. It's all funded by Elon Musk. And all Elon Musk patents are free and open source for all other companies to use, at least when it comes to Tesla, probably same thing will be when it comes to this tunneling machine. I don't think Elon Musk wants to be alone to make the car sized tunnels all over the world.
@@charbax Oh yes... Sorry about that. In this case the fraud that is taking place is the fleecing of the investors that are funding these projects. See Elizabeth Holmes for more information on how that works.
@@jonathanpeters8381 I think generally Elon Musk has created hundreds of Billions of $ of wealth for his investors, I don't think they would be complaining. In fact usually people are fighting each other to get a chance to be an early investor in any of his projects, most of which give the investors several times back the money that they invested.. I think this will likely be the same here. On the other hand, Musk companies aren't trading publicly except for Tesla, so he can guide his teams to work on the pace that is suitable, they are not necessarily in a rush to get things done. I think here the thinking is they'll accelerate tunnel boring activities once the tunnel boring machines is optimally designed and manufactured.. These days they're finishing their test tunnel with the newest boring machine in Texas, I think if they determine it to be performing as they like, they'll use that design to accelerate the boring activities in the Las Vegas loop too. Also they may be waiting for the self-driving robotaxi designs to be ready too. As a maximally efficient and successful service, even with the initial first stations, is crucial to facilitate and accelerate the momentum and to maximize the demand from the users while they accelerate the digging of more tunnels to have more stations ready on the network. I'm hoping they have a few more stations ready by upcoming January when I plan to go back to Las Vegas, but it may be that they need another year or two to get significantly more done on this network.
Self driving robotaxis..... Are you joking? Come on man. Watch Elons talks. 2017..... Robotaxi in 6 months. 2019.... Robotaxi in 6 months. 2019..... Robotaxi works now, it will be out in 6 months. Anybody not buying a Tesla vehicle is an idiot because they can make 30k a year with their Tesla. 2020..... Robotaxi in 6 months. 2021..... Robotaxi in six months. All the way to 2024 and full self driving is a joke. So tell me my friend...... When is enough enough. Elon is what is known in most circles as a fraud.... A sharlatan. I know that you can't see this. Just go back in time and watch Elons talks about full self driving, solar roofs, hyper link..... It's all a lie. The dude is a fraud. And the loop is a joke.