Elon Musk said that Las Vegas is “hopefully” getting a completely operational underground commercial tunnel in 2020.
His plan to bore tunnels underground to ease traffic in highly congested cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas at first started as a joke in 2016 yet has now become a full-fledged business apropos named the Boring Company with a few nascent projects in significant urban areas, including Chicago and Baltimore.
He tweeted Friday night that the Boring Company is finishing its first commercial tunnel in Vegas from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Strip before it deals with different projects and it trusts it to be operational one year from now.
Musk and the Boring Company have been attempting to revolutionize how individuals travel with rapid Loop and Hyperloop transportation systems. Underground tunnels will transport individuals in cars or traveler “pods,” enabling commuters to bypass traffic and get around urban areas quicker.
At the point when finished, the Las Vegas project will comprise of two tunnels, each about a mile long. Travelers will be transported via autonomous vehicles at up to 155 miles for every hour, the organization says.
As hawk-eyed Twitter clients have called attention to, Musk, who additionally established electric-car producer Tesla and rocket organization SpaceX, had initially tweeted in March that the Vegas tunnel could be operational before the finish of 2019. He at that point tweeted in May that the organization would start digging in two months — however, the organization didn’t begin until November.
The Boring Company didn’t react to a request for comment on Saturday.
A representative for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority revealed to CNN Business that Musk’s 2020 completely operational deadline was by what was previously declared in November and that the tunnel would be finished in time for the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show.
“Nothing has changed on the anticipated timeline for development,” she said. “We just broke ground mid-November and have its anticipated completion for the CES 2021 show.”
In December 2018, Boring finished a test tunnel in Hawthorne, California that is utilized for creating Loop and Hyperloop. While Musk showed a Tesla Model X that dropped into the tunnel and traveled a smooth 35 miles per hour during premiere night, he imagines Hyperloop transport that will, in the long run, arrive at 600 miles for every hour. On the off chance that that occurs, US transportation could see a serious update, yet a ton of shifting deadlines stand in Musk’s way for now.