Las Vegas Likes Elon Musk’s Idea For A Tunnel Transit System For The Entire City
The Boring Company, which was founded by Elon Musk to help ease the pain of traffic, is already building a transit system for the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The Boring Company, which was founded by Elon Musk to help ease the pain of traffic, is already building a transit system for the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Elon Musk’s “The Boring Company” isn’t sleeping at all. It has been steadily working on the tunnel loops under the 200-acre Las Vegas Convention Center that will enable visitors to go from one end of the property to the other in approximately 1 minute.
From horses to camels to railroads to Interstate highways, humans have always sought faster and more convenient ways to move around the planet. The next decade or so will see the sort of radical advances in transportation technology that used to take a century. Electric vehicles represent only one of several new and improved modes of transport that will be coming into widespread use.
Elon Musk has a long conversation with Chris Anderson, the moderator of TED2017, while he was in Vancouver last week. His remarks didn’t reveal anything truly new, but they did show the breadth of his vision of the future.