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My first ride in the Boring Tunnel Loop in Las Vegas
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2021
- 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.
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"it's kinda cool, there's like LED lights"
The boring company's projects in a nutshell
And it's always the same boring hsv cycle
Don't forget the air-con
Musk really thinks he's gonna make us soy face over some inferior version of the subway by adding some gamer lights like we're still in the 2018 era of Reddit
*project. Singular. They haven't made anything since
wow its got pretty lights
The disadvantages of cars without the advantages of a train. Genius!
Ikr!
Agreed. This is BS fake-futurism…
truly groundbreaking innovation
IKR!!!
@@Crypted112 LMAO
Someone should really invent trains that go underground. Maybe call them Metro or something like that...
hahahahhhh ...wow thats a good one
LOL, right?
Sarcasm
Metro is not a point-to-point solution, is far more expensive per mile and is slower (target is 155mph for the Vegas extension)...
Maybe a Way to travel Sub-terranean
"future of transport"
what's next? horse-drawn carriages and covered wagons?
Horsepower! So futuristic
Right? A car on the road in a tunnel is the future, if this was 175 years ago LOL
Yes, horse drawn carriages but underground😂
With RGB lights tho
Tesla's new horses are trained to be artificially intelligent which will make the carriages (almost) self driving
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
That’s way more expensive, no thanks.
Funny how bad people are at economics
@@troywalt4834 how long does it take for people to come out and board the car? There’s literally 6 parking spaces only.
@@cybertrk Im pretty sure any public transport is cheaper than this tunnel. It only parks 6 Tesla cars on each side and only 66 passengers can use the whole system at a time. Sure, other public transport costs 100 times higher but they can also transport hundreds of thousands of times more passenger at a fraction of the running cost per passenger
@@troywalt4834 expect a train can transport 1.6 million people an hour. Look at Tokyo train systems. This is just a waste of time
@@troywalt4834 A subway that takes 10 years to build and cost billions of dollars also transport thousands of times more passengers than this tiny tunnel, which absolutely does not transport "thousands of people per hour".
Americans will do anything except high speed trains 🤣
It's sad.
no kidding :( i would kill for a highspeed coast to coast speed train
@@carson8417 they should do one from vancouver BC to san diego thru all major west coast cities
Maybe due to high population only in cities that's why i guess
But tramps and underground metro would be better
@@timserious7678 high populations in cities is perfect for HSR. The bigger the catchment with fewer stops the faster you can go.
So a subway train, but way less efficient than a regular bus.
Disco taxis
at least it have RGB for extra speed 🟥🟩🟦
.... at 30kph and one driver per 3 passengers, **WAY** less efficient than a subway train.
And 10x more expensive, of course
@superfuresh No it is not your own car. And who pays for this luxury?
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
Yeah that's the consequence of having to ditch trains decades ago in favor to personal cars, its such a shame.
Price per mile.. ya know, the thing smart people think about
metro takes 10 years to build and cost billions and billions plus will be much faster long term with the full loop just for the fact that there is no need to stop at each station
@@troywalt4834 unfortunately metro doesn't take 10 years to build and the system can be easily automated and no need of tons of cars and batteries to charge.
@@troywalt4834 The 1.2 km loop has been built in 2 years at I would say a bit high cost (5k/m of tunnel with a circular surface of 12sm) and the Channel tunnel that is 50km long has been built in 4 years under the sea.
Hmmm, isnt that basically a bad alternative to a train?
It's cheaper
Yes it is, If only one can convince everyone who owns a car to take public transport.
If this is it, yes. Far more efficient to move more people per loop. However, I believe the original concept was to make a pressurised air pod system similar to a train with less energy dude to the lack of friction. It was suppose to go long distance and use less energy but be more fast. It is possible I'm mixing up future technologies though. I can't remember.
@@poodlehead909
Yeah you're describing Hyperloop, which is different than what is happening here. The sole purpose here is to reduce traffic and make EV's more relevant as byproduct of it.
GSharks - TRAINS can go 155 mph.
So basically it's a...tunnel. Mindblowing.
It's just damn cheap for a tunnel
@@NogabaHD and it have less capacity, no safety measures, can be used only by electric cars with autopilot.
With led lights of course. I heard they're also making a weird minibus called *pOdS* for it. Futuristic isn’t it?
This is only the start for Elon Musk's boring company, merely a taste before the real thing.
@@MashZ you heard wrong
"my first ride in the boring tunnel"
Proceeds not to show the whole ride
well....it is pretty "boring"
There's nothing to see.
Underwhelming
You want to see cars passing through a tunnel with led lights for 3 minutes straight? 🤔
@@DoNutx777 it's Boring
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
elon's idea is revolutionary, but imagine now if we attached these cars together and made them bigger so they could carry more people. also what if we added rails so they could go faster? wait a minute...
@@Crypted112 that idea sucks though, imagine if 2 superheroes started fighting in there and one of them grabbed the other one to crash him against the system, hundreds will die
@@Crypted112 you had me in the first half not gonna lie
@@f.b.i.853 good point. But what if he also crashes him into sky scrapers since these fights exclusively happen in new york for some reason?
@@Crypted112 Maybe for simpletons, cars in a tunnel not a new idea.
Sooooo... 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.
yeah Americans transit is horrid. They'll just slap some trains from 1960's so it'd be useless its not like Europe or Asia where they have bullet trains.
@@U_1984 americans seem opposed to the idea of bullet trains for some reason. they'd rather sink millions in a useless underground tunnel with fancy tesla cars and epic gamer RGB than putting it to good use by investing in public transportation
or an automated people mover system could be constructed
@@qwertyuiop-jf1lm This is legitimately exactly the kind of use case where a Disney World-style Peoplemover would be *perfect*. The Peoplemover was actually an incredible design; because of the way it was constructed it has almost no moving parts and is fully autonomous by design, so the maintenance costs are basically zero.
But that’s not even the best solution. This loop is literally only a single kilometer long. You could just install a moving sidewalk and call it a day. Or, even better, just walk the twelve minute walk (yes, really) that this system is intended to replace.
@@Nathan-kk6lb true
Is this The Onion? Anyone with an IQ above double digits understands how inefficient this is. Perhaps it's better than nothing, but that's not very well a great selling point, now is it? Clearly the only thing needed to impress journalists is RGB lights. The worst offender is their concept for fare payments. A passenger base that's compromised of mostly visitors all downloading an app.
It's only 1.7 miles just walk in tunnel or give people those electric scooters and it will be way more efficient than using teslas.
@@neku2741 yeah plus What will happen in case of a crash or a fire?
You have to add the time to charge the teslas too it takes about 12 hours for full charge and consereiering that there gonna go back and forth so they can keep it coming with the ac on and maybe entertainment the battery is gonna go to about 24% in a good 3 hours with all of that there gonna go bankrupt
@@neku2741 yeah cus walking would only take 20 minutes on average. or take the tesla and it takes 2 thats a 10 fold increase lol
@@JF1prodz the boring company really just is a shell company to tesla to give their tesla's to in order to reduce taxes lmfao
'future of transport' lmao.
Better than using someone else’s picture for your profile…
Try to think ahead. This tech is 25-50x cheaper in its first month iteration
lol at the angry muskbots.
@@papalegba6759 but what’s wrong with innovation…. Is technology supposed to be perfected on its first try? Is there no such thing as trial, error, innovation?
@@skyrockhou6325 its a tunnel.
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.
Metro systems don’t get built anymore because of cost overruns and corruption.
@@Lost_In_LA What a load of nonsense.
so the boring tunnel sure lives up to its name..
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"
There will be tens of different stations in the loop extension and a train would need to stop at each one. This is point-to-point.
@@johntheux9238 and? Tokyo trains have 40 million people rid them a day and they do just fine.
@@YummyCatgirlMilk But it takes time to get to your destination because you have to stop at each station. Better customer experience with the loop.
@@johntheux9238 and? Doesn't mean it's not stupid and inefficient. Which it is.
@@YummyCatgirlMilk 47 millions $ versus 215 millions for the bid from the Doppelmayr Garaventa Group for a capacity only slightly lower so it's extremely efficient.
This is pathetic. Shame on CNET for promoting this fraudulent deathtrap.
Crawl back into your hole
@@skyrockhou6325 you mean the boring tunnel deathtrap? hard pass my man!
Future news story "Hundreds killed in Tesla tunnel fire"
Woah calm down
The day people will die underneath that thing it'll be a good day. Because if you're stupid enough to even consider that thing a mean of transportation then you have to go.
I feel bad for the drivers of these tesla
Driving all day through a tunnel at 35miles/h
Ufff...
Driving 8 minutes
For minimum wage I guess
Tbf if all the skillset needed is to just drive a car, it's definitely a minimum wage job. Higher skilled jobs that r more in demand butt less in supply create higher wages
Shouldn't be for long if Tesla will activate FSD in cars for this system.
@@tomcat124us you watch it, not until the next year at MIN
Why wouldn't be traffic jams on that tunnels, and if someone has a flat tire everyone has to stop.
TESLA's usually dont gets FLATS, and the car would NOT have to STOP until it Arrived at a Stop.
the car could then be SWAPPED out for a FRESH car, while the Tire gets changed.
there is also ZERO debris in the Tunnel, as cars and Trucks are NOT ALLOWED.
I know right this is a dumb Idea, promised us a hyperloop and delivered this😂
This isn’t an underground road for anyone. Just like Metro lines operate on a schedule, the cars are interconnected and dinamically instructed to maintain their place, preventing a traffic jam. Flat tires are extremely unlikely to occur in such a controlled environment.
@@profile. I agree with you on the tire part but what is point of having such a system if it was meant to be just cars in a tunnel. Just have a look at their website with the wayback machine they started of with outrageous claims and now look at them.
@@rubenjoseph199 First, you managed to confuse Hyperloop (not a Boring Co. project) with the people mover. This people mover is similar to their original plans other than letting people drive in them like additional roads, but this just seems like an improvement over that, eliminates many issues. The Las Vegas system has been tested and it is certified for over 7k people per hour per station, wich is quite sufficient for a project this size. Since the tunnels capacity has been confirmed, and the low costs have been demonstrated, the Boring Company has officially developed a good solution, independent of any accusations like: “it is different than what they had on their website years ago”, or “why don’t they just build a Metro”.
"capitalism breeds innovation"
Ikr
Necessity is the mother of invention. I don’t know what you mean by ‘capitalism’, but you’d have to give solid evidence before I believed that sentence of yous.
@@clacoursiere67 what I'm saying is if we let profit be the biggest factor determining how we develop we'll end up with more stupid stuff like this. Do all the hard work for building a subway tunnel then turn it into a single lane of traffic because the guy who owns the car company wants too.
@@jimbo1637 What? A cool mind on Internet?
The role of profit in business management --- I've been shareholder/founder/principal of small privately owned companies for 25 years -- is not what or as uniform as one might think. Profit is good: allows me to grow and hire new smart people! I've got 30 happy, highly educated employees, and 100s of great customers doing cool stuff. So, yeah, finding new ways of doing things that I think are good for clients and can bring better margins occupy a good amount of thoughts as bizdev meetings. Bad? I'm not so sure.
Pulling fleece over people's head is bad and I think we'd agree here. Telling people that a goat is a cow is also bad.
With all respect, try and and refine these thoughts of yours because nothing good comes out of such sweeping statements. Which is what started this thread: "radical invention! cars in tunnels! 400 people moved in one hour! will all be autonomous soon! 30mph! led tunnels!!
@@clacoursiere67 I understand how profit works, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying in some instances profit doesn't makes sense. The goal of the las Vegas loop was to help with traffic. A subway would have accomplished this better as it can objectively carry more people than a single lane of traffic. The latter was built because ultimately this is a publicity stunt, not a means of transportation.
No autonomous driving. No rails. One person still has to drive. 30mph. So freaking lame.
patrick for all i know this is the first small time tunnel for its time. this is more about scaleability then it is about fast speeds. this is a cheap alternative.
having to install a trainrails and bigger tunnel costs alot more money
@@ikillwithyourtruthholdagai2000 Perhaps, but a subway tunnel would be more efficient. Nothing promised/implied has come to fruition so far.
LMAO when she says this is the future of public transportation. This literally is the stupidest thing I've seen in my life. It is pure idiocy on so many levels.
Which is why will probably be the future, humans are famous for their stupidity.
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!
I suport your comment
One day Elon would say he invented trains and people will believe him
We can call it the "Gliding giga-pod-chain"
Give them some slack. The company is only 5 years old and is working on a problem worth solving. We need a way to dig tunnels faster and cheaper regardless of what that tunnel is used for.
I think everyone are missing the point.
If this idea (or more cost effective ditch and cover technique) became mainstream .
We can forbid the space taking, accidents causing, noisy, polluting cars above the ground.
So above ground will be reserved for bikes, walking, light rail and trams and small shops in the middle of the street.
Why do we put the low efficiency cars that take a lot of space above ground while public transport underground, it should the other way around.
This also allows cars into a controlled environment, that can implement self-drive safely.
It's a win on all side.
Taxis in a tunnel. Amazing.
Take a bus, take a lane, add TSP if you want.
Im by no means saying this is efficent, but lets face it, public transportation in America is just straight up bad
@@klobasa9380 Because we barely invest in it as much as other countries.
@@nickzakrath7080 Yea, 750 billion a year in the military but urban planning is done by a 2 yo
Thats why its called the boring company
@@klobasa9380 so it should be improved instead of doubling down on America's destructive car culture
"network of driverless transport tubes offering high speed rides without the traffic"
Jesus christ Claire you are describing a metro, it already exists. I swear Elon could reinvent the wheel and have millions of people call him a visionary genius for it.
introducing the CYBER-ROLLER with LED-IMBUED RUBBER (may catch on fire, we're working on that)
there are literally drivers and they are going 30 mph lol
Yes, it's a metro, but with all the disadvantages of a car
@@Shadow25720 Also the advantages of a car. It doesn’t have to stop at every station, and there are no stop lights or stop signs. There are no transfer stations. Your vehicle takes you to your destination station with no stops at all.
Except nobody is going to mug you, or puke on you, or any number of other offensive things. Plus when you get to the other end you can immediately go to your next destination without having to climb out of the station and then get into yet another transport. And you don't have to wait for the next train, etc. etc.
I'm shocked to see more likes than dislikes in this video.
Why???it's a funny video!
don't shoot the messenger
@Juan Pablo how is it not innovation? New TBMs, new tech, fraction of the cost, fraction of the time, zero tax dollars, and all in their first ever production. Pretty innovative
The likes are those who dont know that a thing called underground subway train exists
Paid bots maybe ? Or the people that actually like this idea (For some reason ) are afraid to express their opinion
The real question here is: in Christmas season... will they increase the amount of LEDs or will they leave it as is?
😂😂😂😂😂
The tunnel would just become the new traffic lol
That's true, we need tunnels and roads on the surface. They are complementary, without the road it's the tunnel which would be jammed.
@@johntheux9238 No lol, it's literally adding more lanes and more car traffic to the problem.
@@theodiscusgaming3909 Adding more lanes only create traffic if people can change lanes. This system is separated from the surface.
Watch "The Simple Solution to Traffic" from CGP Grey to see why more lanes on the same road is bad but more roads is not.
@@johntheux9238 more road is bad it makes more people uses more cars. What you need is a public transport but the USA oil and motor industries won't allow that.
@@neku2741 Makes even more roads then. Continuous expansion allows you to always be ahead of demand.
Mom, can we have subway
Her: We have subway at home
The subway at home:
This thing is such a failure. It is basically a marketing ploy to sell Teslas
so what is the failure if it successfully markets the tesla?
@@sandz000 well I guess it is a success then lol
How is it a failure? They did it without public funds for a fraction of the price of a regular tunneling service and it’s their first project ever
@@skyrockhou6325 watch RUclips videos reviewing and commenting on it.
@@skyrockhou6325 They absolutely used public funds.
4400 people per hour in a fleet of 62 teslas. Each tesla transports 71 people per hour. I assume they max out 3 riders per car so roughly 24 trips per hour per car. No way, not even close. The las vegas convention center holds about 200,000 people for a large event. If half wanted to get there by this futuristic awesomeness it would only take about 23 hours at max capacity, but there is no way this thing runs at max capacity. But it does put a lot of taxi cab drivers to work!
Ya but it has LED lights.
And they haven't got anywhere near the claimed capacity
This is a joke.
@@jakefromstatefarm9721 I've been to Montreal and their subway trains have LED lights. Much more futurist than this one I should say.
The boring companies pitch is "to bring emissions free subterranean transport to the masses."
Soooo..... a super expensive, super unsafe subway which requires people to be ferried around in Teslas.
It's actually super cheap. Was 47 millions while the next bid was 215 millions.
@@johntheux9238 But does the next bid actually function as safe mass transit?
@@Fpvpilot928 It had a slightly higher capacity but not that much.
@@johntheux9238 And what happens if, simultaneously, two Tesla have a fiery crash on either end of one of these tunnels? Where do the people in the middle go? Where does their air come from?
@@johntheux9238 the total price came to 55 million. it can only do 1800 people and it will cost 7.7 million a year to pay the drivers .
If that's the future of transport we really deserve climate change lol
So it's too hot to walk. Maybe building a city in the freaking desert was not a good idea?
Plenty of cities around the world are too hot to walk in the summertime...Dubai for instance...doesn't mean nothing is going to built there.
The most hilarious thing here is that the AC is just a heat pump. It pumps all the heat back into the tunnels and makes it even hotter.
@@rajnadar6555 Dubai is a pretty bad example considering it a very temporary glory, it only exists because of Oil in the area.
@@marwin4348 only 28% of UAE GDP is focused on oil so you’re wrong
@@skyrockhou6325 Now it is 28% percent but when they started building Dubai it was close to 95%.
CNET should feel stupid for posting this and keeping it up.
Elon should learn how trains work.
now way, thats not patriotic enough
Wow! Get you Elon, you’ve invented the underground train, oh wait……hang on, you set your time machine 120 years too late!!
120years? The train exist in 1830s
@@CUBETechie first steam powered train journey was taken in 1804, so yeh, about 120 years
@@paulwilson3759 oh okay that is long 😀
@@paulwilson3759 i think you mean 220 years m8
@@johnstephenson5158 Wow. Well spotted, ahhh well, I know what I meant 😁
This guy scammed an entire city!
So...it's a private taxi.... revolutionary!!
Yeah you must be fun at parties. Space exploration is literally just flying metal.
Yeah. Basically a private taxi in subway tunnels. Neither idea is revolutionary, but in the U.S. It could be the closest thing to high-speed public transportation we’ll ever see.
@@alexanderulv3886 lol
@@alexanderulv3886 except that's oversimplifying space exploration, but it's pretty accurate for this. this is basically just uber in an underground tunnel
to call this the future of transport and to hear this from a senior editor or a tech-channel really makes me wonder about the integrity. Call it what it is: a scam!
How?
@@rravitejamavr6650 because that wasn't the deal, they cut corners
Sascha - the Dopplemyer people mover was the SCAM.
BORING Tunnles are cheaper and saver than a TRAMWAY or Articulated Bus.
@@markplott4820 yup they look quite safe without any rescue tunnels, ventilations, sprinkler-systems etc pp. This is a scam in terms of safety and efficiency!
@@SaschaPallenberg - ELECTRIC cars are SAFER than ICEV, and they dont catch fire when Operating.
only battery fires after a CRASH and people EXITING the Vehicle safely.
However BORING LOOP Tunnels do have ventiliation and Refuge areas.
“bringing emission-free subterranean transport to the masses” … she did not just say that, did she? she knows about trains, right? underground trains? are capitalists okay?
0%: Wow, this tunnel is so cool!
*Literally 100%:* Why not just build a train?!
wow, a tunnel with three exits that you can drive a car through, truly the future
sooo the London Underground with cars
Wrong:
There are only 20 Teslas.
Has not been proven to move 4400 per hour. That is the goal but will never happen.
The Boring tunnel is totally underwhelming and is a failure from the start. Nothing but a tourist attraction. Disney World blows it away.🤣
"Well, sir, there's nothing on earth, like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail...sing it with me now, Monoraaaaaaaaaaail".
Monoraaaaaaaaail!
Monorail!
This is such an American solution to traffic problems... like just build a damn metro system...
bro do you even get what the problem here is? this is las vegas.. this city doesnt need that. you can easily drive for small portions with a small easily scalable size tunnel. connecting a train system underground will cost so much more money and is alot less private and eventually these cars can run
@@ikillwithyourtruthholdagai2000 Are you sure you know how the costs of this tunnel and a metro tunnel compare?
Why would you need anything private in this case? Actually, what do you mean by "private" here?
An extremely narrow tunnel filled with Teslas with highly combustible and hard to extinguish car batteries. Say what you want about Elon Musk, but the man knows how to design a great death trap.
Tesla fires are rare. Believe it or not they are designed not to burst into flames.
@@kevinbailey8827 This is still a tragedy in the making sir.
@@illomens2766 Every form of transportation is a tragedy in the making.
Riiight... 4400 people/hour in this thing. At an average of 2.5 passengers per car, that's one car every 2 seconds. I'd be impressed if they even get 1/5 of that, and that's when everything goes 100% right.
lol if u really where to be impressed by it cus it will take cars 2 minutes to drive truh this tunnel, with a average of 2.5 people on average and 62 it could optimally run more people then 4400 per hour if there is sufficient demand.
the cars can drive faster tho and with automation coming they can drive without a driver. this will increase the average passenger by alot
test it for yourself: this tunnel is 1.7 miles long and you can drive at 35 mph and having 62 cars.
this solution is stacable and not as intrusive as trains and can be alot more complex ultimately
@@ikillwithyourtruthholdagai2000 it’s also fuming stipid
Wtf is the advantages of this tunnel system?
Significantly cheaper than a subway, which is the alternative for quick trips in the city.
A Metro system costs like 100+ Million/km, the miami loop is supposed to cost around 10Million/km. So it is 10x cheaper.
But a Metro can also hold 100+ times as many people.
Even if it was that fast, a single metro would carry the same amount of people as 15+ Teslas, doesn't need to get charged and is safer.
Point-to-point because there are a lot of small vehicles, high speed (155mph) and more stations so less walk to get to the loop.
Only worth it once the extension is done because there are only 3 stations for now and the radius is too small to go that fast.
@@martini380 it’s not 10 million/Tesla lol, the tunnel can transport 4,400 people per hour, about the same as a metro would have been capable of.
@@uoppsdnsu4266 wrong yet again. Tokyo's metro handles 1.6 million people an hour
It's just a tunnel for 1 car. What's so innovative about it?
Not much, I think it's just cheaper than other tunnel companies or something.
This is only step one. This is not what Elon had envisioned. Baby steps. Let's give it time yet.
@@imjody Found the Musk apologist!!!
Nothing you can just slap some tracks add a light rail and the systems 100 times better
I would probably crash into the wall if I was driving, as it looks so tight.
TESLA Autopilot is 10x better than a HUMAN , most people are CHIMPS .
@@markplott4820 weird they aren't using the autopilot then.
@@Roaryer they’re programming it as they drive. Don’t mistake 1 year for the next 100 years
It is a legal lane like any other driving lane. He and his structural engineers had enormous requirements, standards, and codes to follow. I would love to drive it all day......The Tesla is so firm on the road. The perfect drive to demonstrate what I mean. (I have one and that car is incredible to drive and all my life I have driven other high-quality cars. Musk knows precisely what is doing,,a step at a time.
i saw a video by Common Sense Skeptic (title: DEBUNKING THE VEGAS LOOP), and he brings a good point. The walls are so tight, you might not be able to open the doors while in the tunnel. If the car catches fire, as it happens sometimes, you are trapped inside the car, and even if by a miracle fire doesn't kill you, the smoke will certainly do the job. Basically, they threw all safety regulations out of the window when making this tunnel. It's not a matter of if a disaster will happen, but when.
The "Vegas Loop" isn't a transport solution, it's merely an advertisement for Tesla cars.
I definetely have to do this thrill ride!!! 200 mph on german Autobahn gets boring.
The Autobahn has a speed limit
@@freddybell8328 only on30% of the highway system,the rest only recommended speed limit,doing 251mph,current record, you can watch it on RUclips, is perfectly legal
@@emiliajojo5703 I thought that if you were clocked doing more then 320Kph then it breaks rules but that’s still beyond insane speed
@@eternalemperorvalkorion750 it's legal,but insane.for example the record of 402 kmh was done on a special tuned Bugatti on a road with few traffic, sunday to avoid trucks,perfect weather ans road conditions,professional race driver and so on and so on.
1:22 But wait! He put AC in the cars! So innovative!
It needs to be large enough for a walkway alongside it for emergency use with access doors to a center service tunnel with separate air circulation system. These things should be overbuilt and have redundancy
Safety what's that?
~Capitalism
Do the math people! They had 300 test participants. In order to come out with the claim of 4400 people moved in an hour number they'd have to have moved 300 people every 4 minutes. Imfuckingpossible. Or are we giving him the "up to" quotient, meaning anything from 1 person "up to" 4400 people qualifies for his bonus?!
Guys, I got another idea to help! Let's get horses and put A CARRIAGE on them this will be 100% natural and quick!
Will they have RGB?
so its an rgb tunnel
Crap. Just put a train there. It is far more effective than cars.
A tunnel with no ability for emergency to go down if ever something happens, no ventilation if ever traffic builds up that can cause the car to overheat… he should have just invested in creating a Vegas metro station with multiple stops and a train and smart reader for monthly subscription, weekly and day passes created by Tesla 🤦🏻♀️
I am not American enough to understand this madness…
if you do the math, if people were to just walk through the tunnel, there were would be higher traffic per hour through the loop.
good job elon, you made a beautiful pedestrian walkway, 100ft below the ground.
*with no ventilation
@@ADthehawk yes because you dont need to breath inside a car. i am sure there is cross ventilation in this quarter mile long tunnel. even elon is not that dumb.
I think the boring company is much better at making computer graphics than practical infrastructure.
What was the capacity 440 Person per Hour? Well this Train on my Profil picture (called Doppelstock Pendel Zug DPZ) can per unit (2 Wagen 2. CLASS 1 Wagen 1. Class) carry up to 400 passenger and couple 3 trainsset with have a capacity of 1200 person per Train not per hour.
Plus this Trainset operates in canton Zürich -(Switzerland) with only have around 1 Mio Person.
Even though i have much respect for Elon musk, i don't think this city-wide tunnel concept will succeed. I can bet my money on this.
Do it then. When the boring company goes public you can short it, literally betting against it. I will be doing the opposite.
What if one believe in elon and all his various companies, including the boring company, but think this concept is a joke?
@@UnknownUser-ej8tk I do you one better. I'm shorting tesla in a few years.
@@neku2741 In a few years? why then?
@@UnknownUser-ej8tk he likes losing money
What if -- you make it bigger so it fits more people and it's way more scale efficient and what if--- let's say... we change the rubber wheels with steel wheels because they are stronger?
Oh, that's a metro, or a light rail
Have you been on public transport; duck tht it’s full of public
@@ragnarlodbrok8399 well do you want to wait hours to take your tesla taxi such that would be faster to walk? If you are so offended by the existence of another human being, don't go to cities, simple as
This is a terrible idea. A simple subway or underground road would have been so much better.
Making subway tunnels per mile can cost 1 billion
Patrick - a Subway would cost $$$ Trillions , the BORING co LOOP costs only a few $$ Million .
and the LOOP tunnel is SAFER and cheaper than a under ground road , also LOOP tunnels DO NOT allow any GAS VEHICLES to enter.
@@zekeaffy9647 That's for a full sized system with stations and safety features and a capacity 100 times this.
Digging a sewage tunnel and paving it with a road is about the same cost as the boring tunnel and you can drive cars through it just like this.
@@zekeaffy9647 first, that's for a major subway system. second, yea it's expensive but guess what, it's also way better in every way when it comes to capacity, safety, and speed.
"Bringing emissions free subterranean transport to the masses"? What an amazing idea! Why has no-one thought of that before?! 🙄
No, not like subway systems do that exact same thing, right?
People are so foolish, they’re swayed by the idea of riding in a Tesla instead of a subway car because it makes your snap story more interesting
It's just a tunnel... but with GAMER LIGHTS
Can someone please explain to me how it's going to solve the traffic problem like I am not smart like Elon so for me, it's just like adding one more lane but underground
It's an advertisement, nothing else. Completely stupid as a transport solution.
I can already tell this is just going to become a way for the VIP’s and wealthy elite to get around. Nobody else.
this is alot less expensive then a buss ride in alot of places of simelar distance. its actually very cost competative. extremely even
ur commend is litterly stupid lmfao
3:13 Practically seeing this, it is a pipe dream.
Having human drivers in The Loop is the ultimate admission that the autopilot doesn't work. A one-way underground tunnel is the most forgiving traffic environment ever and Tesla doesn't trust its autopilot to safely deliver passengers?! Fail.
Welcome to the Future.
We have a metro, but designed by a 9 year old.
Why not just build a subway instead
a Subway costs $$$ TRILLIONS , Boring tunnel only cost a few $$$ Million dollars.
@@markplott4820 but capacity is low
@@DartLuke - this is just the. Beginning, they are able to add capacity as BASE grows.
@@markplott4820 so it is regular train. But with low hight. Looks like US doesn't have normal public transport system
@@DartLuke - in the 1920' s America had lots of Streetcar and Urban trains.
But, BIG OIL bought them in the 1930's and began DISMANTLING Electric rail , and by end of WWII , electric rail was DEAD in America, replace with BUSES from GM, Mac Truck, Firestone tires and Interstate battery.
This became to be known as the Great Streetcar SCANDAL.
Is this a joke? How is it possible that anyone who is even remotely aware of the concept of a train can't immediately see how inefficient this is?
A single subway train can hold up to 2k passengers at once. Under this system, you would need 500 cars to match the capacity of a single subway train.
Incidentally, if these 500 Teslas were arranged bumper to bumper would just about cover the entire Las Vegas loop. If you match the capacity of a single train in this system, you end up with a traffic jam so bad that you would never be able to move, as you are being blocked..... by yourself.
I think so too
It is kind of exhibition of a "beta version" of a system which will evolve in the future to becoming flying drones in a tunnel with options of some or no stops on the way, options of price and privacy, for example
“There’s still a human behind the wheel”. So, he didn’t even invent a less-efficient train. He invented a less efficient bus loop. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
What will happened if there is a traffic crash or someone has a medical emergency?
"the drivers are trained to back out of the tunnel" (sadly, I'm not kidding)
pray to god you somehow survive i guess because this whole system is a mess. one person crashing is gonna clog the whole system
Now all Musk has to do is throw in some tracks, replace the cars with trains and then take the company public so muskrats can throw their paychecks at it.
For the amount they paid the idiot to dig a 1 mile tunnel in 2 years and fill it with paved sewage pipes they could have built a dedicated subway station just for the convention center. At least he didn't forget the RGB lighting
We've got that in Europe, but instead of cars we use trains. You're welcome, America.
Mind-blowing.
So basically expensive extra limited lane that is only for Tesla's taxis.
Elon's fun call that the future
"But downstairs from me right now is the future of transport" well i certainly hope NOT. What a waste of money and resources for what essentially is a hybrid lightrail-tunnel, but worse than either of those alone.
Imagine if you put trains in those tunnels you might be able to move more people around. Oh hang on! Has that already been done?
Doesn't fit. Bigger tunnel = more expensive.
Simple maths...
People should stop trusting a lying billionaire
@@glipk He didn't lied. They reached their 4400 people per hour goal.
@@johntheux9238 okay and? Tokyo's trains carry 1.6 million people an hour
@@YummyCatgirlMilk Doesn't cost 47 millions thought...
Literally running a couple of buses in the parking lot would move more people.
Imagine one Tesla catches fire inside that thing. Just the idea of one and the inability to escape freely will bring great paranoia and claustrophobia for me.
1. Ventilation in all tunnels and very rigorous fire safety requirements.
2. Wide enough to open doors.
3. Cars do this trick where they drive, but in the direction of the rear, the tech nerds call it 'reversing'.
@@adamanderson3042 Yup like reversing for few miles in a small tunnel, would love to see Musk demonstrating this technique
@@goldenamour3730 You're self-reporting. These tunnels are designed and intended for autonomous operations.
@@adamanderson3042 well the vents and fire escapes in this tunnel are either invisible or non existent and trying to make dozens of cars in a tunnel reverse in sync? Good luck with that, you'll be dead if there were a fire long before you managed that
@@grassytramtracks "make dozens of cars in a tunnel reverse in sync?"
They will be autonomously operated once the local authorities give it the green light. At the moment, the cars aren't operated by random owners, they're operated by employees who have earpieces and radios who would be informed of any emergency and could easily reverse.
Naive question: why cars and not buses?
Buses can take more passengers, and can go outside, connecting the subway system to the above-ground transportation system.
You can even add cars if you want, if stations are large enough so that a car can go through the station while a bus is stopped.
I suppose that the construction costs would not have been that different, the tunnels just need to be large enough for a bus, perhaps you'll need bigger stations...
Not a naïve question at all, you have a good point, but this is just a stupid VIP taxi for the crazy rich. It would be far more efficient to put even buses, but yet still way better to use trains but this Musk
You can put a amusement park train (a little bigger as you need AC in there) in there at a fraction of the cost needed for all those Teslas. And the rides would be much more interesting as well.
1:01 4400 people an hour? A metro line would do the same in ten minutes. Probably even less than that.
And a metro would cost 10 times as much
@@jackwhitlock1 ....which is probably worth it if you want to build a transportation system that serves a city.
@@oktupol Or you could build 10 small tunnels, get the same capacity but 10 times more stations so people don't have to walk for 20 minutes to find one...
@@jackwhitlock1 true but it would also be 10x more efficient than like 60 cars that carry 1-3 people in a tiny tunnel
@@johntheux9238 what do you think is more efficient, one large train and tunnel, or 10 small tunnels with electric cars that need to be bought and maintained to run all of them at less capacity.
How is that cheaper? 😂 😂
If that's "the future of transport" then we are doomed.
It's basically a subway system, with trains, that are practical, high capacity and accessible for disabled persons (and need only one driver to carry hundreds of people) replaced by stupid Elon's cars.
wow... a single extra lane of traffic, I'm sure that'll solve the traffic jams, why not build more 6 lane highways or 12? 24? the sky is the limit!
Or a metro.
why not build public transit and then you would need less roads
@@0mirix lets ignore public transit for a minute, even from the perspective of a car centric urban planner, this tunnel is monumentally stupid
Less motorways, less roads, less lanes and less cars, is what is needed, more lanes and more roads and cars make traffic worse, not better
When Las Vegas gets a politician with more than one brain cell, you should be able to maybe, possibly convert it to train?
Then you get all the downsides of trains. Also, no one wants to build a train system for the price that TBC is charging for the loop.
Only 40km per hr🤣🤣🤣🤣 promised 150km per hr
They never promised to reach this speed in the LVCC tunnel, you are confusing LVCC with the Vegas loop extension.
@@johntheux9238 so complty money waste
@@rahulbanerjee6635 We can argue if people who signed the contract had a bad idea that's for sure, but this idea was delivered perfectly as promised.
But yeah this loop only makes sense if the Vegas extension is built, which is not 100% sure since it extend beyond the LVCC property so more people will be involved in the decision making...
Boring is the perfect name for this considering tunnels have been around for over 150 years. Don't see how this is very innovative.
So basically it's a subway 🚇 for cars? Why not just build an actual subway?
Because Elon doesn’t make trains? Maybe he will in the future though.
That’s expensive way more expensive
Building a subway is about 10 times more expensive, and a road network is more flexible, can go from where you are to where you want to be, eventually.
The waiting time, shedules, stops, driving with many people. This could be a game changer for big citties, no jams, red lights and lower car energy consuption, but I hope there will be something more than just a straight tunnel, there should be stops if something happened to your car and multiple parallel tunnels for traffic flow without jams.
Jermaine - because, a Subway would cost $$$ Trillions insted of a few $$$ Million.
Wouldn't a train work better, than a car? You could have hundreds at a time vs 3 or 4. Also no flats with steel wheels.
This takes 4400 per hour currently which is the capacity that vegas asked for… what’s the problem
@@gabrielonibudo5710 the problem that capacity 4400 is only on paper. And this system will work only for tesla cars. US has really bad transport system. Just use busses, trains, trams. It is much better then small tunel for electric car
Yeah, but then you have to stop at each station. This si point-to-point.
@AmateurThespian They did a stress test on Tuesday the 25th. They exceeded their goal.
Elon gets free advertising for his teslas
lol this lady drove through a tunnel and is acting like she this is some revolutionary tech lol.
A tunnel slower than a highway, where taxi drivers have to drive you around lol.
Wait, what?! It's just a tunnel where a taxi driver picks you up and takes you through a narrow tunnel at slow speed?! WHAT?!
That's exactly what it is. It gets you there faster than the alternatives, not by magic, but by a combination of easily understood technology.
@@kevinbailey8827 don't try to sugarcoat this! Just don't! Rediculous. It was supposed to be a long distance tunnel with automatic driving at extreme speeds. Not a priority line for taxies.
@@54114142 I don't care about what it "was supposed to be". That may have been your dream, but it wasn't mine.
The Las Vegas Loop is what it is, which is an effective way to get between several stations in and near the Convention Center. The number of stations is growing and will eventually be more than 90, covering the resort and university areas of Las Vegas. That's what's been approved so far, but it could eventually spread out into the residential areas of Las Vegas and Henderson.
Uhh, what about the carbon monoxide? Or the tyre wear? Or the fact that underground trains exist?