Elon Musk let Jay Leno drive a Cybertruck through The Boring Company's tunnel underneath LA—take a look

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Watch Elon Musk and Jay Leno drive a Cybertruck through The Boring Company's tunnel underneath LA. (via CNBCMakeIt)

Tesla's new Cybertruck, which set the auto world abuzz, on television in November. But apparently there's nothing like seeing Tesla's first all-electric pickup with his own eyes.

"I saw it on TV … but nothing strikes you until you see it in person," Leno says in a new episode of "The former late-night talk show host and longtime auto aficionado travels to Tesla's Hawthorne, California headquarters for the episode. There he's joined by Musk and the Cybertruck, which is slated to begin production in late-2021 and will start at $39,900, for a test drive.for a rapid transit system, which runs for 1.1 miles underneath Los Angeles.

"It'll be quite interesting to see if we actually can fit down there." Musk says, noting that the company had never before even tried to fit the more than six-foot-wide truck through the tunnel.At one point, while driving the Cybertruck, Musk tells Leno that Tesla could take all of the pickup's proportions and "drop them by 5%" to make sure the truck can fit in an average driver's garage.

But Leno and Musk get the Cybertruck through the tunnel, which ends with an elevator platform that lifts the pickup back to the surface.

 

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