Elon Musk's Boring Company plan for a 69-station 'Vegas Loop' is anything but nice

[RainCaster]

The Verge tells us about Musk's digging "successes" in Lost Wages, NV.

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s mostly unreliable tunnel digging venture, has won the approval to expand its “Vegas Loop” system to — wait for it — 69 stations. Nice? Not really.

The tunnel system is Musk’s supposedly futuristic idea to alleviate road traffic by shifting some of that bumper-to-bumper traffic underground. The expansion, approved by the Clark County Commissioners, allows The Boring Company to construct 25 miles of additional tunnels for a total of 65 miles and 18 additional stations.

Of course, Musk’s promise to revolutionize transportation with underground tunnels is, in practice, rather underwhelming. Rather than being whisked along through a futuristic tunnel by an autonomous, high-occupancy shuttle traveling at impressive speeds, riders instead are forced to sit in a Tesla operated by a human driver at speeds often less than 30 mph. Sometimes there’s traffic.

It bears repeating: Musk has simply recreated underground the same failed above-ground systems he claims to want to conquer.

[dchill]

1. Sounds expensive, foolhardy and familiar.

Musky? That's it! It's definitely musky!

[marble falls]

2. I thought it was Borowitz or Onion when I got to the underground Tesla bit.

[2naSalit]

3. He's a real pro...

Of a con.

[WarGamer]

4. for the non-Musk hating view... and judge for yourself

https://www.boringcompany.com/loop

In summary, the Vegas loop is like underground subway except cars travel through the tunnels instead of trains.

Big difference, no need to stop at every "stop" like on a subway car.

Up to 150mph...

Or an unbiased take:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/12/early-data-from-elon-musks-las-vegas-loop-shows-a-slower-yet-popular-service/

[Phoenix61]

6. Not really. You never park the subway car.nt

[WarGamer]

7. And these cars aren't parked on the "roadway" either.

Basically it's a bunch of Teslas that shuttle people around as needed. They're quite popular according to the article.

Call them underground high speed taxis.

[Phoenix61]

8. No, they are parked at the station.nt

[WarGamer]

9. So what?

People make too much of this.

It's an underground high speed taxi service... future plans are for it to be fully autonomous.

It's just a small system in one city.

[Phoenix61]

11. It's a small, incredibly expensive system that does nothing to

address public transport.

[Retrograde]

12. so, what happens

if car A stops at a station that cars B,C,and D don't want to stop at? Is there a way of passing vehicles in cases like this? Or do the others have to wait until the way is clear? What if I'm at a station and want to go somewhere - do I have to summon a car, or do they continuously run around the system?

Sorry, subways have been around since the 1850s, and mostly work pretty well: what people usually complain about often boils down to "I don't want to ride with those people"

[Merlot]

5. And yet somehow this was approved

The expansion, approved by the Clark County Commissioners

It's a plan for underground traffic via tesla cars. That's the whole plan, more cars for tesla. Can non-tesla cars access the tunnels?

Rather than being whisked along through a futuristic tunnel by an autonomous, high-occupancy shuttle traveling at impressive speeds, riders instead are forced to sit in a Tesla operated by a human driver at speeds often less than 30 mph. Sometimes there’s traffic.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Good video about a year old