?Coming soon?: Elon Musk shared this new look for the Boring Company?s Las Vegas project. | The Boring Company

The Boring Company?s ?public transit? system has become a valet stand in a parking garage. Here?s one way to tell when Tesla?s earnings calls are scheduled: Elon Musk gets on Twitter to post a fanciful rendering of a Tesla-adjacent project to boost the company?s stock price. This week, just before yesterday?s call, it was a new look at the Boring Company?s Las Vegas tunnel transit system, which, in typical Musk fashion, is somehow more visually underwhelming than the previous version and also manages to contradict much of what he?s previously said about it.
The Vegas Loop, for which ground was broken late last year, is the first ? and, so far, only ? paying project for Musk?s tunnel-boring outfit, which has been doing test digs outside Los Angeles since 2017. The two 0.83-mile-long, 14-foot-wide tunnels in Las Vegas will allow vehicles to travel the length of the recently expanded convention center, shortening what might be a 20-minute walk to a one-minute ride (although that doesn?t include waiting or boarding time). The cost for a single mile of underground road" $48.68 million, paid for by the Convention and Visitors Authority with local hotel taxes, to move an infinitesimal percentage of the populace, without making the slightest dent in traffic, or carbon emissions, or getting anybody to or from work. Even if the tunneling technology were somehow ...