The Most BORING Vlog You've Ever Seen | Vegas Loop First Public Rides
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- The Boring Loop in Las Vegas is finally OPEN! For the first time ever, Elon Musk's Boring Company ran the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop for commercial customers. Rather fittingly the first conference to be hosted following lifting COVID-19 restrictions was the World of Concrete, an annual international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry construction industries. We snagged a ticket a few weeks ago to ensure we could attend and get one of the first rides in the new tunnel.
Now, we'll admit, this isn't the most exciting video we've ever produced but when any company promises a new low-cost zero-emissions potentially autonomous transportation solution, we've got to check it out!
Let us know what you think of this boring Vlog in the comments.
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Awesome!! Thanks so much for the FIRST real scoop. Any idea when they’re planning to drive faster? Is it free to ride if you have a ticket? How was the concrete conference? 😆
Thanks Mark! It’s free to ride if you can show you’re attending an event at the convention center! No clue when they will start to pick up the pace.
2 min journey anyway ATM so need for speed is low
This is just a small part of a bigger system they are building out. I don’t think cars will go much faster in this section, maybe a little faster. Cars will go 120+ on future sections that stretch longer distances. There will be fast tunnels sections that feed into slower ones that enter stations or exits.
tbf Miles to Memories Vegas was maybe the first czcams.com/video/agc6idfnT5s/video.html
@@2nd3rd1st yeah I saw that a couple days, good video
Surprised they are still manually driving and not leveraging AP yet
Look closely at drivers.. I suspect they aren't steering in tunnel, the centering is spot on every time and they just have a loose hand on wheel. For show and to not freak out first customers and to test in peace. Seen a few videos now, I wager a Dr. Pepper in tunnel they aren't steering.
I think they’re being super careful at fist and taking it one step at a time, so much FUD. Or they’re waiting for the button too.
@@blackhousebrew3358 two more weeks.
As an original WoW fan would say. Soon tm.
I doubt they have permission from the Fire Safety officials to use AP or FSD...until they have permission, they have to drive manual.
In MX I have noticed speed limit on a screen. Wonder if that was for tunnel or the surface streets. Ha ha ....
Good catch, we’re guessing it’s from the city streets as these cars didn’t seem to have any special software installed for the tunnels
Amazing! Does it require an app to use? If so, can you show us what that looks like?
You just need a ticket to the convention center.
@@Cars-N-Jets then you just walk up to any car?
People will not understand how impactful this will be to transportation for another 10 years
Yeah right! For the cheap $47m and a bit of on-going cost it WILL one day transport twice as many people per hour than a ski lift.
This is just small tunnel for cars. And you can use only electric car in it. Hello... Subway was invented over century ago
@@DartLuke who tf likes using the subway? And they’re 200 times more expensive
@@gabrielonibudo5710 I like. Sorry if subway in your city is terrible. Are you from New York?
Where did you get those numbers? You completely forgot that one tiny tunnel will not work. You need multiple of them, you need airventilation, you need pumps, emergency exits, normal exits...and as result it will be not cheap. And this system will be not for everyone. It will be only for owners of Tesla.
Highways didn't solve problems of traffic jams. Only normal public transportation system will work.
Yes a small tunnel running Tesla’s that can carry 3 people will be way more effective than a train that can carry thousands of people
Love it! Can’t wait to try it when it goes self driving. Seemed a bit bumpy in areas, fine for 40mph but prob not great for when they boost it.
Thats the one thing I can't fathom. Make it level!
Any idea how/when they charge the cars? Were there plugs at the stations?
The cars probably charge elsewhere overnight. A full charge likely lasts all day long at those distances/speeds.
They can charge in ~30 mins at any Supercharger or they can use 240 volt outlets to charge in ~8 hours.
Well they’re definitely not driving them to some SC every night :). But yeah, it’s probably true that they can drive all day with a single charge and it’s enough to only charge at night in which case they don’t necessarily need chargers at the stations itself
@@devastor2 I don't know what they have onsite, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few superchargers and several smaller chargers capable of charging in just a few hours.
Super cool, I too think that the software is at least lane keeping.
Soooooo cool!! 🔥🔥🔥
EPCOT 1982...
It is slow, but I understand that they are still working on it. Cool stuff though. How much cost the ticket/ride?
Free when attending events at the convention center!
А мне нравится прикольно и не по жаре. Правда как безопасность там обеспечить. Если электричка начнёт гореть в тоннеле то всё братская могила.
So... Am I the only one who's been thinking this whole time that they need an express lane for the middle station?
You’re not wrong
NIIIICE touch from the organizers to have the World of Concrete website open on the screen. Only in a Tesla.
69 ON THE AC! NIIIICE!
Could you share the locations of where Tesla are drilling tunnels?
gonna be hard to back out of the parking space when running at capacity
They don't back out...the way they park, they have space to go forward while avoiding the car in the next stall.
So... it is just usual tunnel for cars, but really small.
And extraordinarily cheap approaching highway cost
@@kasibert2229 and capacity is low, entrance and exit are bottlenecks, no support infrastructure like emergency exits, service tunnels. It can be used only by electric cars
@@DartLuke capacity is not low rn it's 4400 passenger per hour at these speeds
Not even 2 mile tunnel doesn't need emergency exit entrance/exit why would I think those are bottlenecks? Any sources or evidence? And yes these can only be used by EVs which is a good thing
@@kasibert2229 I am curious about 4400/h capacity in real life scenario, not with 300 people riding in circles. In order to achieve 4400/h a car should leave every 2.5 seconds.
@@AurelAvramescu there was a convention today and capacity was still 4400
Looking forward to taking that loop!
Not all that boring if you ask me
In the tunnel the drivers aren't steering. Bet you a coke.
I really dont think they would remove the blue steering wheel indicator that tells you when autopilot is on. These people are driving. You owe me a coke.
@@HavokBWR a GUI wheel isn't proof... No cokes yet. my little conspiracy theory is they are doing it on the down-low, so it appears as if they are fully in control whilst doing a lot of testing and data gathering in backround. I am looking at car behaviour in the tunnel and their steering inputs.. fishy.
Tesla vehicles gather driving data from when drivers are in control and when on the cars are on autopilot. There is no need for Tesla to to hide the system.
@@Jogeta5 of course there is, the PR from the driving autonomous training period in the tunnels is crucial, since public ride in the cars - if that can be done without the world noticing it's a big gain for when they eventually reveal it working flawlessly.
@@ButeSound man, you're delusional. Even in some report and article they said it that it is still manually driven.
Way cool,the future is here.
Science & Math:
120mph = 53m/s = let's call that 50m/s for simplicity
0 -> 50m/s in let's say 10 seconds, or an acceleration of 5m/s² (½G) - quite uncomfortable as a passenger, and impossible if you're sitting sideways
Distance traveled in 0 -> 50m/s = ½ * accel * t² = 0.5 * 5 * 10 * 10 = 250m
The tunnel is about 650m between stations, so that's ½G accel for 10 sec (250m) + 3 sec at top speed (150m) + ½G deceleration for 10 seconds (250m).
Sounds perfectly practical, yeah not so much.
Couple of issues with your comment.
One, you don't have to stop at each station. You can go straight from one end to the other without stopping at the center station.
Two, this project was never planned to go anywhere near that fast. It's a transit option for the convention center, and is working exactly as planned. The 120-150 mph are planned for the longer tunnels once built. Run your numbers again with your stop being 5 km away.
Victims of marketing 😆 Have americans forgotten about the subway?
Apparently a ton of people forgot how to do research. This was a roughly $50M project for 1.7 miles (2.7 km). How many subways do you know that can be built for that cheap? Even the cheapest competitor, which was above ground rail, was more than double the cost for the same amount of people per hour.
Further, look at the costs of subways. Since the other commenter mentioned Japan, look at the cost of just one line there. Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line cost $2.2B for just 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of tunnel. You could build over 40 LVCC Loops for that price. That would be 68 miles (109 km), 120 stations, and a transport capacity of 176,000 people per hour, far more than that single extension can carry. The same is true when you look at subways all over the planet.
@@anthonypelchat Firstly, it's two tunnels of less than a mile, no one in urban transport counts both tunnels in the distance.
Second, the price is so low because 2/3 stations are not underground (stations are the largest cost).
Third, the number, is given in total boardings, not the more common passengers per hour per direction. The pphpd of this system is 1100, our local subway (at 3x the price) has a pphpd of 25,000.
@@Boffin55 I highly doubt that your subway cost anywhere near $150M. Again, look at Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line for reference. $2.2B and only carries 363,654 prior to covid (likely far less now). It doesn't matter how many people the train can carry if few ride it. A 40 LVCC Loop sized system would cost less ($2B vs $2.2), go much further (34miles vs 5.5miles), have many more stations (80 above ground and 40 underground vs 16 total), and have enough capacity to carry all that lines passengers in just 2 hours!
Don't like that comparison? How about comparing to the metro in Prague? They are just beginning to build the fourth metro line, which will add just 6.5 miles and 10 stations for $3.2B. Or the Toronto subway in Canada? Line 5 Eglinton is expected to open next year at a cost of approximately $12 billion for 12 miles and 25 stations. Or Las Vegas itself? The Las Vegas Monorail cost $650M to build and is only 3.9 miles with 6 stations. The Boring Co systems are just so much better at a similar cost when you actually do the math.
@@anthonypelchat Exactly, look at Tokyo cost 2.2B/12.6mi, vs 52m/0.8mi. Thats 174m/mi vs 65m/mi. Sure, Vegas cost 1/3 as much. HOWEVER. The Tokyo system has a capacity in the 35,000 pphpd vs 1,100 pphpd that the Loop has. So by tripling the cost and building a proper subway line, you increase capacity 30-fold. If you want to realize how badly botched the vegas one is, you only need to consider you need to cross the traffic loop to get out of it with a pedestrian crossing ! WTF
@@Boffin55 You missed that. Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line was a single line extension for $2.2B and only 5.5 miles. $400M per mile. And they expect new lines to be even more.
So Tesla can't even get FSD to work in a tunnel where there are perfect lane markings, zero obstacles, and a known route? They could at least have the driver monitor and help with loading/unloading. So basically this is a tunnel with RGB lights...
This just launched bud. Give it time.
The county restricts autonomy
@@JesusisKing2000 They have been working on fsd since 2016. I have been dad
How do you know it isn't using autonomous features that arent shown to the public?. They run their own TBC car software..
@@ButeSound Looks like a regular telsa interface to me, thats just an internet tab on the right side of the screen.
With these low speeds and narrow roads it would be much more efficient to just open these tunnels for cyclists end escooters. Once they increase the speeds and of course make more stations and build a higher capacity Teslas for 7-9 passengers then this whole project will start to make sense.
Carrying luggage to hotels? No thanks. Remember, this is expanding to include those locations.
@@seanz6586 No, it isn't.
The LVCC were promised something *much* better than this when they signed the contract.
But after seeing what The Boring Company is *really* capable of, you honestly think somebody is going to buy this shit concept?
@@haakonht The LVCC has stated they are happy with the passenger capacity...so what's your problem, dude?
Or just build a train that can carry thousands of people
@@haakonht The LVCVA was promised exactly what they got, and they are extremely happy with the LVCC Loop. It's passed all capacity and safety milestones so far, and did so while being 1/4 the cost of the above ground tram that also bid on this project. They are now expanding to cover most of LV with a 29 mile tunnel being built at no cost to the city. The new capacity estimates are 57,000 passengers per hour and it will likely surpass nearly all subway systems in the US in daily ridership. Only the top 4-6 subways should carry more each day.
this makes no sense......
Okay why not
@@kasibert2229 because a train is better
@@xijinping937 what do u mean better? It's not cheaper it's not more sustainable it's not not using valuable real estate.
@@kasibert2229 a train can carry way more people than some Teslas that that make them more efficient for the cost