Will Elon Musk?s Boring tunnel really be public transit"
The Boring Company
Does this look like a ?people mover? to you" For the 175,000 tech fans descending on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show this week, one of the must-see attractions is located not among the acres of trade-show booths, but just outside the convention center.
In November 2019, Elon Musk?s Boring Company started work here on a project for its first paying customers: an underground transportation system that will carry passengers less than a mile from one end of the convention center to the other. Eager CES attendees hoping to catch a glimpse of the action can peek through the fence at the construction pit, where tunnels are in the process of being bored as part of a $48.68 million contract with the city?s convention and tourism authority. (Don?t worry: If you?re not at CES, there?s a livestream.) ?I think that 10, 15, 20 years from now, we?ll look back at this as a Kitty Hawk?type moment,? said Steve Hill, president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, at the tunnel?s November groundbreaking. ?This technology has the ability to change transportation not only here at the convention center, which is important to us, and here in Las Vegas, but around the country and around the world.?
Yet exactly what ?technology? is being pioneered at the convention center site is still up for debate. Although the project is being publicly dubbed as the ?first underground people mover,? what?s being built appears to be more of a mechanism fo...
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