Although it has promised that “traffic and congestion will be a thing of the past,” videos emerging from demonstrations at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas show that traffic and congestion are still possible in the Boring Company’s tunnels.the Boring Company’s Las Vegas loopAs you’d expect because of your experience with traffic above ground, the jam forms near the point where Teslas leave the main roadway.
To critics, that’s the issue with single-lane tunnels for cars, like the one Tesla has built in Las Vegas. It takes a good idea that already exists, building transportation infrastructure underground , and makes it much less efficient by reducing the number of people it can handle. Though they reduce the cost on cities, which don’t have to pay for the trains and conductors, they shift that cost onto passengers who have to pay for their Tesla, making it useful only to those who can afford it. It doesn’t take a degree in economics to see that that creates a two-tier transportation network that is less useful to cities and the