Musk, the CEO and product architect of electric car maker Tesla, as well as the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX, founded the American infrastructure and tunnel construction services company The Boring Company in 2016.īy December of last year, however, Musk confirmed that the tunnels being dug by the Boring Company were “road tunnels,” where the vehicles would travel on tires, not tracks. The Las Vegas tunnel is the first commercial application of what Musk has dubbed “Loop,” defined by The Boring Company’s website as a “high-speed underground public transportation system in which passengers are transported via compatible Autonomous Electric Vehicles (AEVs) at up to 155 miles per hour.”Īccording to documents filed last year by The Boring Company, the Vegas Loop is intended to move an expected 4,400 people per hour in 16-passenger autonomous vehicles through two 0.83-mile-long, 14-foot-wide tunnels.
He also said on Twitter that it doubles as an underground nuclear shelter as the Vaults in “Fallout Shelter” do. In the case of the Las Vegas tunnel, Curbed reports that Musk’s own Boring Company started work on an underground transportation system in November last year that will carry passengers less than a mile from one end of the Las Vegas Convention Center to the other.Īlmost a year after work began on the project initially dubbed as the “first underground people mover,” Musk has said that the first operational tunnel under Vegas is almost done. dwellers) need to be kept happy by meeting their power, food, and water needs. Tesla co-founder and maverick businessman Elon Musk has compared the Las Vegas tunnel being developed by his venture, The Boring Company, to one of the Vaults in “Fallout Shelter.”Īny fan of the free-to-play simulation game “Fallout Shelter” knows the idea behind the Vaults: players build and manage their own Vault as an Overseer, that is, the leader and coordinator of their Vault.