The anti-traffic tunnels of the founder of Tesla did not convince at the high-tech show in Las Vegas.
To relieve traffic congestion, Elon Musk had the idea, in 2017, to dig tunnels that motorists could use from the public highway (see the video below). Five years later, the solution designed by The Boring Company, created by Elon Musk, was presented at CES in Las Vegas, the technology fair, and it seems that the experimentation has not been very convincing.
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Several journalists invited to test a tunnel, 1.3 kilometers long, in Tesla cars, found themselves … in traffic jams. Videos show saturated tunnels as drivers need to get out of their vehicles (see video below).
The lack of parking spaces (see below the images of the Boring Company Station published by Elon Musk in July 2020) as well as the narrowness of the tunnels are singled out to explain the traffic jams at the end of the route.
Motorists, however, all had to drive at the same speed of 30 km / h. An instruction which does not seem to have been respected, and which seems difficult to reach. “Unless the cars in Elon Musk’s tunnel all travel the exact same distance, are the same size, and go at exactly the same speed, traffic jams will appear.», Explains an Internet user specializing in mathematics who posted a demonstration on Twitter (see below).
Despite these snags, within three years a network of 47 kilometers, with 51 stations to access the tunnels, called “Vegas Loop”, should see the light of day in Las Vegas.
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