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(Pocket-lint) - Getting astir CES - the world's largest exertion amusement - successful Las Vegas is usually a drag. There are taxi lines for days, monorail crushes successful a bid to get to that gathering connected time, and Uber prices surge to sky-high levels. CES 2022, however, was a small different.
Back successful April 2021, erstwhile overmuch of the satellite was successful full lockdown, Tesla CEO's Boring Company opened its archetypal nationalist project, called Vegas Loop. It is an underground passageway that, astatine this stage, links Las Vegas Convention Center's West, North and South halls crossed 3 stations - via chauffer-driven Tesla.
Oh, and of people there's tons of colourful lights, due to the fact that this is Vegas, truthful wherefore not?
Another #ces2022 highlight: grabbing @elonmusk's @boringcompany Vegas Loop and being driven underground by #Tesla betwixt the Las Vegas Convention Center halls.
Interesting pre-Hyperloop impervious of concept. #VegasLoop @Tesla @LVCC pic.twitter.com/7MFT6si8NR
But as we reported backmost successful precocious October 2021, this is conscionable the beginning: Boring Company has been granted licence to grow the Vegas Loop project, covering 29 miles full and with 51 stations planned. It would - and volition - chopped down transport times and costs successful the metropolis and could beryllium hugely beneficial to visitors.
The Vegas Loop that we sampled is conscionable 1.7 miles long, taking astir 2 minutes to transit from West to South halls, and astatine capableness tin lone tally 70 Tesla vehicles astatine once. Still, that's overmuch quicker and much comfy than walking - and conveniently positioned to get speedy entree to the halls. So erstwhile it expands further into the city, this caller transport strategy could alteration the look of however radical get astir Las Vegas.
Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 7 January 2022.
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