Video Of Traffic Jam In Elon Musk¡¯s Underground Tunnel 'Loop' In Las Vegas Goes Viral
A video posted online, taken by a passenger, shows the Tesla cruising through the tunnel and it gets stuck in a traffic jam.
CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk once said that whether there will be traffic forever or there will be tunnels as a solution. However, looks like he managed to create the recipe for the worst combination.
It¡¯s either traffic forever or tunnels. Try our first operational tunnel in Vegas at the convention center! The city just approved a full tunnel network, connecting major hotels, convention center & airport.
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2021
Video footage is surfacing on the internet showing a traffic jam in Elon Musk¡¯s underground tunnel in Las Vegas, during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
The show is really popular and it draws a lot of crowds including journalists and others viewing new products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry from thousands of exhibitors.
But this year, the show wrapped up with a much lesser crowd due to the pandemic during the show dates between January 5-7.
So, people were surprised to see the congestion in the tunnel on the Las Vegas road.
The video shared online shows backed-up traffic at the annual Las Vegas tech convention and has left people somewhat perplexed, given that's kind of the exact opposite result to what Elon claimed would happen.
2025: This how most will die, asphyxiating in a tesla tunnel traffic jam, which is supposed to be impossible pic.twitter.com/9DDX5PU83w
¡ª pixelnull¡ Certified InfoSec Occultist (@pixelnull) January 6, 2022
This tunnel is called The Loop and is an underground tunnel around 40 feet deep that runs from near the Las Vegas Convention Center's West Hall to the South Hall and back built by Musk's Boring Company.
People enter Teslas at 'stations', and are then driven by a human through the tunnel to a drop-off point - surprisingly enough there's no automated driving here yet.
The tunnel can apparently fit 70 cars, but the supposedly the reason for the traffic jam was because there were 90 cars in at times due to 'driver error'.
The @boringcompany Convention Center Loop operating early as CES kicks off today. Driver said 90 cars are in use in the 3 stop loop system today. #vegas #vegasloop #boringcompany #ces pic.twitter.com/s9CU2c4DZ0
¡ª Mick Akers (@mickakers) January 5, 2022
There were many reactions to this.
I don't see how this is any better than just driving on a normal road.
¡ª James Hoffmann (@JamesHoffmann3) January 6, 2022
this traffic jam only happens with like a dozen cars down there; what do you want, one tunnel per car?
¡ª Chris Pinecone (@chrisisme) January 6, 2022
They should link the cars together, have one driver in the front car, and run these between stations on a regular schedule. Thinking they could call it a ¡°subway¡±. Brilliant.
¡ª PPP Venture Capitalist (@PPP_VC) January 6, 2022
@elonmusk @CNBC I thought this was supposed to solve traffic problems
¡ª Human run bot (@RyanakaFlats) January 6, 2022
What happened to the 600mph tunnel thing?
¡ª Cedric Alessandro Chambers (@ChambersFineArt) January 6, 2022
Elon Musk has a lot of answers to give.
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