The Las Vegas visitors authority on Tuesday picked Elon Musk's tunnel-making startup "The Boring Company" to build an underground "people mover" as part of a massive convention center expansion.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) board of directors touted its choice as a "monumental decision that will revolutionize Southern Nevada's transportation."
The Boring Company will design, construct and operate a convention center transport system consisting of a loop of express-route tunnels capable of carrying passengers in autonomous electric vehicles at high speeds, according to LVCVA.
Travellers of the Vegas underground are advised to keep an eye out for Deathclaws, Mirelurks, Mole rats, and Feral Ghouls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:37PM (1 child)
I can dig a tunnel from New York, under the Atlantic ocean, to London at the cost of $1 per mile in the timespan of 3 days.
Okay, that's not true, but it does demonstrate how incremental improvements in efficiency is a major groundbreaking scientific and technological achievement. After all, at its core, a Intel I5-8500 is fundamentally the same thing as the 8086 CPU from 25 years ago.
If Elan Musk can reduce the cost of drilling by half (as an example), it would be a major achievement which could cause people to fundamentally rethink how civil engineering is done.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:01PM
Then, wake me up "If Elan Musk can reduce the cost of drilling by half"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford