Wanna Race?

Racing at 127mph under a tunnel in LA!

[@bulldog7520]

You missed your opportunity for a sick wallride..

[@henrymob2651]

Bulldog *tries wall ride..* *lands upside down*

[@kamronmartinez487]

You probably could do that if you were going at very high speeds but only for a second or two

[@jaumegenaro7673]

@@kamronmartinez487 the aston martin valkyrie supposedly has so much downforce at higher speeds that it technically should be able to drive upside down

[@Eieieieinszweidrei]

@@henrymob2651 I think there is a video where mercedes did it

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

@@henrymob2651 creates traffic jam inside tunnel, firetrucks try to get inside

[@zuko1569]

When you're playing a racing game and you know the secret path

[@sullivansouza2709]

just saw you literally last video i watched on gus johnson's video lol

[@lipidsled]

Ready Player One anyone?

[@keelanbarrette529]

I miss all the secret pathways in games like rush

[@andreabasalto]

@@lipidsled First thing that came to my mind

[@iluvj00]

It’s like those fast runners that clip under the map in dark souls

[@mrwn6284]

Does the next patch include wall riding?

[@blackoutsolidguy6219]

Lol lol lol 😂

[@mrjek01]

Isn't that the point? With tunnels you could end up with your commute similar to a clear public road.

[@grandmastarflash]

@@mrjek01 who'd have thought it?? your own personal tunnel direct to your desired location is faster than driving in regular traffic! now all we need is millions of personal tunnels, what a great idea 😂😂😂

[@ReV_RZ_67]

Asphalt 9 😂🤣

[@nolanboyer6883]

Who knew being the only one on the road made commutes faster

[@JustTheFbi]

Nolan Boyer thats the whole point of the tunnel to bypass traffic

[@georgegreen3470]

A private tunnel would be only within the price range of people that can already afford helicopters

[@aolson1111]

@@JustTheFbi You actually think there won't be any traffic in the tunnel if it opens to the public?

[@Victor-ks3sp]

@@aolson1111 It's gonna be controlled so there is no traffic. If all cars are driven autonomously at the same speed there won't be traffic.

[@kosta1605]

@@aolson1111 well you'll have to own a self driving vehicle to use the tunnels. So that alone will help regulate it for now.

[@thetonywang]

We demand more, regular updates! It's been too Boring!

[@Wissmo]

Absolutely right!

[@vincentf1487]

But they don't want to Bore you with their Boring videos.

[@erogonemc]

I would have said Tube Boring...

[@aaronsharman8031]

I feel obligated to like this...

[@josharntt]

Name of the game

[@quickknowledge4873]

A clear private road is faster than normal traffic? Genius

[@tonyc6996]

And you can only go to one destination..🤯

[@YourAssAintSafe]

@@tonyc6996 its supposed to cut traffic from high areas u do the rest

[@tonyc6996]

@@YourAssAintSafe and what cuts the wait time of people waiting to use the elevator

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@YourAssAintSafe why don't the cities simply make main roads wider even when there's space to do so? Because it's irrelevant how wide a particular road is, the limitations are uniform across all road grid. Just because there's a fast path from A to B doesn't mean that roads around A and B can handle increased amount of traffic. Tunnels are built according to complex traffic modelling, and just because you CAN build a tunnel doesn't mean that you SHOULD. In fact, shorter routes decrease the capacity of the road grid, a shorter road can physically fit less cars. And when one road starts to clog up it starts a chain reaction that includes more and more roads around it. Thus making people drive a longer route often DECREASES average ride time.

[@petrciperny]

... then put an electric train in that tunnel and call it, I don't know, "Underway" or something like that. Genius squared.

[@NSS7]

This video is misleading. In reality there will be lots of people waiting in line to use that tunnel just like waiting for traffic light. Normal road might end up with less vehicles and both arrive at same time.

[@or2kr]

While the automation and autonomous driving will enable higher throughput than if handled by the persons driving themselves (like how it is on the surface), it will still offer a lot less than comparable underground public transport systems. TBC targets a ridership of 10000 people/hour in a, according to them, large system, which is way lower than what ordinary metros and train systems can and are achieving

[@physxme]

that elevator at the beginning looks like a bigger bottleneck than the tunnel itself

[@user-ejxomyq]

Yeah but still you'd get there faster. Waiting 2 minutes to use the tunnel to go over 100 mph vs waiting at a long light to go under 60 mph

[@vahsirartapaham4578]

@@user-ejxomyq waiting 2 mins ? That thing is just 1 lane

[@fritzzz1372]

that's a point, but 1. with automated transport pads for the cars to ride on, there is no traffic as all cars move uniformly behind each other, the only problem to be solved is traffic whn entering and leaving the tunnel 2. you can go much faster on the pads underground than you would be allowed on the ground.

[@alexkuzmin9268]

the problem with traffic is people using a 5-7 seater vehicle to drive 1 person to work which at times is only a 15-20 minute walk away

[@AmokCanuck]

I wish 1 seaters were as popular here as in Asia

[@IsraelRich]

Spot on!

[@ZubinB]

The modern SUV craze isn't making things any better. At least the Japanese have their 'kei' cars which help somewhat.

[@teenanguyen217]

Hasn't most of Asia solved this issue with mopeds? Oh wait...

[@Bergen98]

Exactly, public transportation (like in Europe or Japan) is the way to go. But Elon, a car producer, of course does not think that

[@florianplack2973]

Woah the traffic light didn't even change haha

[@llll-po2pf]

SMM Flo um yeah it did

[@GOAE7777]

@@llll-po2pf He means it didn't change before the guy that took the tunnel arrived at his destination.

[@llll-po2pf]

GOAE7777 I see

[@lilBabyBornInCalifornia]

yeah it did

[@RingoYote]

Welcome to LA Traffic.

[@meatballsnacker-sitregald6919]

When you takes the secret route in NFS Underground.

[@piotrkoxdziwko]

Ya know, underground road haha you get it haha, becouse the tunnel is underground ha ha..

[@Teskodev]

@@piotrkoxdziwko lol

[@meatballsnacker-sitregald6919]

@@piotrkoxdziwko A surprise, to be sure, but a welcomed one.

[@rusitoexplorador]

Lol just say to Elon that we are not playing creative

[@sebbikul5045]

Road maintenance costs a lot of money too tho

[@DeeJayFM]

He is

[@HgihAsFcuk]

yea he is lol goin to mars and shit

[@randomname9395]

Well.. Elon is 😂

[@janthore]

It all made sense when I remembered the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk

[@chaitanyapendse6564]

Jan-Thore yeah me too

[@XEM_Ajax]

People who believe this is a good idea are the most retarded low iq peasants I've ever seen

[@skullwakkah6930]

@@XEM_Ajax this is marketed to Americans. Americans have a car-centric culture and underdeveloped public transport. How unusual that a car manufacturer would sell cars harder to car-loving people. I dont think the people are the only problem here.

[@ThamizhanDaa1]

Yeah but thsts assuming there's no traffic underground.. lmao

[@emmanuelezenwere]

It takes only one vehicle to break down for the entire path to be blocked

[@Delosian]

@@emmanuelezenwere And imagine a service vehicle getting to them...

[@Trivagoski]

@@emmanuelezenwere that's like talk shit about trains for the same reason.

[@eXotixXskillz]

@@emmanuelezenwere just imagine the cars would be on skates in the final tunnel system where there cant be a break down..oh wait

[@AM-lx3ob]

Emmanuel Ezenwere There will be multiple lanes when it gets busier. And how often do you see a Tesla suddenly breaks down while driving on a highway? It’s extremely unlikely event and even it happens it will be the same as if this happen on a highway.

[@888TopGear888]

Real question: what happens when cars are lined up trying to merge onto the street after exiting the tunnel?

[@xtreamerpt7775]

Traffic jam inside the tunnel 😁

[@Calliopa_22]

Well, if it all goes to plan, then there will be reduced traffic on the surface because of the tunnels and thus, there will be no waiting at the end of the tunnel. Also, the tunnels won't have the same car density as roads but will transport them further, faster.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@Calliopa_22 think about it for a minute. If there was a traffic jam at the end of the tunnel before, how does delivering more cars quicker into that traffic jam help dissolve the traffic jam?? City planning departments specifically make some routes longer to limit the amount of cars in one location. Because point concentration of cars is the worst problem that creates a chain reaction of traffic jams.

[@Tuber360904]

Butt Why?? buddy, the boring company has been thinking of it don’t you worry. its not worth spelling out to you why additional 3 dimensional lanes of traffic will reduce congestion overall, but just trust that the guy you replied to and the people working on the project know more than you.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@Tuber360904 pompous appeal to authority only works when the entity in question has any authority in the first place. In reality, all we see is obvious useless bullshit like this video which misleads and lies about the project, and doesn't address any real problems in any way. Just like marketing stunts of Hyperloop projects. It _is_ possible to judiciously use tunnels to solve complex problems, unsolvable through other means, where they make sense, and that's exactly what _cities already do_ and have been doing for centuries. 3 dimensional digging is ridiculously expensive and safety measures and limited throughoutput of any car-based transport system make city-wide car tunnel system completely inefficient and much worse on pretty much all accounts compared to a modern subway. I understand the need for Musk to inflate his importance in light of Tesla's struggles, but primitive manipulations don't make anyone any good.

[@MrWolf-xk8sl]

If LA had roundabouts like we do in Europe it would be much better

[@kiatsumi7355]

Yeah, believe me they aren't that ideal. I live in a small town and when people come here to ski, the roundabouts are actually jammed lmao. Mainly it's the dumb drivers, but nonetheless the 3 minute trip becomes a 25 minute one.

[@fredpinczuk7352]

If you did that, at least 500 accidents the 1st day. As 90% of all US drivers don't even know how to get into a roundabout. The following 5% will enter in the wrong rotation, because why not, and the last 2 % will stay within the roundabout til they run of gas. So no. Lets not do that. And yes you are right, they are way more efficient.

[@BodhiPolitic]

@@fredpinczuk7352 So what you are really saying is that Americans should not be allowed to drive.

[@kiatsumi7355]

@@BodhiPolitic There is a video that shows how people in usa do the exact opposite of what should happen on a roundabout. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX2UoaiAYtGFobs

[@kiatsumi7355]

@@BodhiPolitic I'm not saying that they should not be allowed to drive if there would be any doubt to it. But it's clear that there are much more people not knowing how to drive on them in usa than in europe.

[@rohithm6940]

Are we gonna ignore the fact that he walked around a corner and pulled out a bench

[@Dregoro]

Great video! would be even better with speed counter and mini map ;)

[@smam741]

You pretty much see the speed on the screen in the corner but a mini map would be cool to visualise 127mph.

[@fxzn]

well you will have one in the car

then you'd be able to see they were actually only going 15mph

[@arvin6606]

@David van Ecke Bruh

[@fxzn]

@ but you can see the speedo in the car

[@Rar9866]

Would be interesting to see how long a emergency vehicle would get to each vehicle if there was was a problem

[@zynthesis]

same?

[@NotTubeIm]

I think each car is on a skate platform so a car broken down wouldn’t cause a jam if that’s what you’re thinking about. OTOH if the skate breaks...

[@llll-po2pf]

what do emergency vehicles do when people are stranded on those vacant navada roads?

[@Robert-cu9bm]

DC Ren it's more of a bumper system, still uses the car wheels to drive.

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@Robert-cu9bm the cars behind could push it out of the tunnel then?

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Builds a tunnel for the metro train, where they drive their personal car. Good fun. Good luck with the tunnels, we need them around the world !

[@niggamoment6484]

This is not for a metro train bruv

[@MicroageHD]

They are pretty bad at tunneling tbh.

[@nasuegaming1255]

That's why we have a word called "improvement"

[@muhammedhafan961]

No

[@CoolzVlogs]

so this is what an underground mine cart system looks like

[@Tubeytime]

Can't wait for this project to pick up speed.

[@alborzdesign]

more than 127mph? (that's 204 km/h!!!)

[@SodaPopin5ki]

Dunno, I think they're driving the company straight into the ground.

[@Masada1911]

They are just continually reaching new lows

[@madhououinkyoma]

You’ll have to wait a while. It’s pretty boring actually

[@htsun5916]

TUNNELS! TUNNELS! That's all I got.

[@PyroVesten]

Well, that's one way to make a point.

[@chrissi.enbyYT]

Its a CGI. How you wanna build a tunnel to every house? Everybody will want to use it. So even IF you are successfull, you are again in traffic jam lol

[@TooKorky]

@@chrissi.enbyYT lmao

[@ARBB1]

@@chrissi.enbyYT "It's a CGI" - It's a computer generated image? Lol what?

[@chrissi.enbyYT]

@@ARBB1 way too smooth

[@hellsgate09]

@@chrissi.enbyYT It's Boring Company's Test Loop Hawthorne Tunnel. Google it if you dare to stop looking like an idiot.

[@UnknownUser-wd6yf]

Fun fact: Adding another lane won't solve traffic. It'll make it worse.

[@insaneali4280]

That tunnel is no where NEAR wide enough for me to feel comfortable while driving 127 MPH

[@DarkDrai]

That's why it would be fun. :D

[@DarkDrai]

@@francishubertd.billones9910 ...Isn't it being carried on a skate? **rewatches video** Omg, it's really driving through that tunnel... That's actually horrifying. Also very impressive...

[@sebbikul5045]

You don't turn the car yourself, it turns be itself

[@jondoig]

Close your eyes

[@auxencefromont1989]

use the Force luke...

[@ALLElectricChannel]

Autopilot in a tunnel!!! Can I test this please 🙏

[@shanpatel]

looks like autopilot was off

[@akhilsubhash7644]

It is guided by the wall

[@RoboticNerd]

Looks scary, but I'd do it lol

[@KindOfyeah]

@@akhilsubhash7644 no it's the line on the ceiling

[@hermankerman2523]

M8than No it’s guided by the walls

[@llll-po2pf]

if the tunnel were completely dark it would be like being in a spaceship 🙃

[@Sin526]

Nah... we need Hyperspace lines/lights 😶💨💥

[@dougrobinson2024]

We need strobe lights and twisty lines on the walls, so it animates and looks like you are traveling through a time tunnel.

[@thisflyingpotato4227]

@@dougrobinson2024 And an interior camera on the car to record all those sick moves of epileptics dancers

[@dougrobinson2024]

@@thisflyingpotato4227 It could be pulsed at a frequency rate not to cause epilepsy, much like frames in a film do not.

[@thisflyingpotato4227]

@@dougrobinson2024 Actually I would love them to get a frequency that triggers it

[@ryanm.191]

@Elon can you do a segment of the tunnel with a barrel roll please?

[@fd2613]

The left guy didn't play eurobeat that's why

[@-KillaWatt-]

You missed all the rings and failed to get the chaos emerald.

[@Felixkeeg]

*Obama chuckles*

[@joeybarela363]

@@Felixkeeg You fucking tricked me

[@commentsanitizer7929]

If this hype will remain, eventually the tunnels will become so congested that driving on the surface will become time saving.

[@jonnies]

Except that underground is effectively a 3D space (unlike the 2D surface) and you can build as many layers of tunnels as you want. As demand increases, so can the numbers of tunnels. And given the increasingly amazing rate at which their TBMs can bore tunnels, that will not be difficult.

[@AERYS.]

​@@jonniesJust one more tunnel!

[@goncalobalanca4299]

@@jonnies great so instead of just one more lane its going to be just one more tunnel

[@SupertzarMetal]

@@jonnies And tunnels are so cheap to make. /s

[@user-zl6om2ru4g]

Best gaming dubstep drops 2013 gaming compilation

[@CityWhisperer]

Congratulations Elon, you invented the subway!

[@Stickman_Productions]

Car subway

[@trenrede]

yes, but you see the point right?

[@joelcoll4034]

​@@trenredeno

[@witherhoard5333]

When the railroad is just made out of powered redstone rails

[@tom1141g]

1:23 Model Y

[@ChrisBigBad]

whoot! excellent catch!

[@Iwijn2000]

Nicceee

[@MarkRyan]

I was about agree with you, but I slowed down the video and saw it had tsportline plate. I think this is just a Model 3 that's has chrome delete.

[@tom1141g]

@@MarkRyan It is higher compared to model 3 standing next to it in the following seconds.

[@erasmuspedersen6106]

That is definitly a Model Y compared to the Model 3 arriving seconds later

[@johns5976]

Damn cost of fuel even got batman

[@Jeyakumar1970]

just imagine if the tunnel itself got crowed like the ones in the road

[@politecat2985]

Its not going to happen because there would be tunnels around the whole world 😎

[@StefanTabit]

@@politecat2985 ok but there are also roads around the whole world and they get crowded

[@dsp4392]

The reason we have surface roads is because they are one order of magnitude cheaper to build than tunnels or bridges. The reason there are no more tunnels isn't because nobody thought about it, it's an economical reason. Somebody has to pay for these. So be prepared for tolls, taxes increase, have some ads displayed in your center console or maybe some Netflix-like subscription service. And when everybody gets used to pay for the tunnels, it's back to square one. Tunnels are just a distraction. The real solution to traffic is autonomous vehicle that can cross each other without stopping, with cm accuracy.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

The real solution is to get rid of cars. They are simply too heavy and take too much space.

[@dsp4392]

@@NJ-wb1cz Autonomous bikes would be nice, but they kinda suck in bad climates. I think the best solution is autonomous two seaters (self driving Smarts)

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@Sam Squanch Public transport system allows people to travel far more than having a car. Self driving a car is a full time monotonous chore, while using fast clean convenient affordable public transport allows you to relax, meditate or work without wasting time.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@Sam Squanch this video about solving traffic problems of big cities, of course I'm talking about big cities as well. Musk doesn't plan to dig personal tunnels to every village in Appalachia, you know.

[@MrAlexRadic]

wont lines to use this replace traffic jamss....?

[@antonhelsgaun]

Well it isn't meant to replace normal roads

[@MactoneAurele]

It's easier to stack roads underground, think about it as "vertical" lanes!

[@Nathan-Plays]

@@MactoneAurele bs waste of money

[@pauld.b7129]

Yes it would. Basically all this is, is an incredibly expensive way to save a couple minutes. Maybe, at that. A regular subway would be 10x more efficient becuse it can transport a volume of people with a single car instead of most likley one or two per car with this tunnel. I cant imagine it being very time saving once a line has built up. And who knows how many cars they can send at a time, and how long it will take for the skate that guides the cars to come back down the line, then hook up the next cars etc. This is a boondoggle if ive ever seen one.

[@futbolita89742]

Haah exactly new innovative traffic jams

[@1stontario]

Could you imagine the line up. I.ll be like sitting in traffic all over again.

[@m0li0n_n]

elon musk's next creation:teleporting stations that work on what place you think of

[@djfhhfjdjfb951]

The guy in ready player one be like

[@chriss8328]

Best comment

[@jamalbrown7519]

If you watched the video in reverse it would be more accurate too

[@justinblackett]

There's something bothering me about this idea. This is fantastic if it's just one car going down a tunnel for this video... But what happens if/when this system becomes popular and many people want to use it at the same time? The traffic congestion going into and coming out of that tunnel is going to be phenomenal. And then there's the safety issue... In the unlikely event of some unusual incident occurring, how would you manage a lithium fire inside of that tunnel (worst case scenario)?

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Same way you handle hyperloop catastrophic failure. Make people sign some legal paperwork before allowing them access so that they can't sue you.

[@garyfreeman896]

This doesn't seem to have aged well.

[@Lyricsxeverythin]

serious question: how do u manage the networks of tunnel if it becomes popular

[@Superior1995Rex]

An Italian asking about managing traffic is like an Elephant asking about cycling XD

[@leversandpulleys9274]

@@Superior1995Rex k o m e d i

[@chang.stanley]

But what if the tunnel has the same concentration of other motorists and intersections? A personal tunnel would be pretty awesome though

[@Skafiskafnjak51]

only one per ride I guess, probably AI would control whole thing. And it would be much more tunels, this is only a test

[@gabrielonibudo5710]

Stanley Chang it ain’t matter because people are betting places faster reducing congestion

[@arcadealchemist]

i guess it works because it dosn't need to worry about trafic lights and such. but a que would build up at the tunnel to start with if everyone is clocking off at the same time.

[@mychickenisburning10]

Nope. Multiple layers of tunnels, and most importantly only cars with autonomy can use it. 2 model 3s following each other perfectly at 127mph

[@arcadealchemist]

@@mychickenisburning10 well it will be a while till we get magnetic cars that drive up the side of walls like in them dystopian moivies that phlip k dick wrote about. but i for sure think we are in his universe.

[@yotoronto12]

"Here we can see in this alternative universe they have begun to process of creating underground freeways and the basis for the train."

[@alt8791]

SpaceX/Boring Company be out here inventing IRL piston bolts

[@Akkuzi]

I legit thought this was GTAV lmao

[@Vartazian360]

But by multiple people wanting to go through the tunnel, a queue of cars will build up and it will take just as long? I dont understand.

[@GamePron46]

The point of the Tunnel is to create a three dimensional system without intersections. Everyone would be going the same speed and there would be no queues. This is just a prototype.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@GamePron46 that's not how driving works. Transport grid speed is limited by slowest parts, not fastest. The faster you go from A to B the more probability there is of a traffic jam at B.

[@GamePron46]

@@NJ-wb1cz Well didn't I say that everyone is going the same speed? kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2a5kImwh9eGeKs

[@minecraftmaster5807]

GamePron46 how will they get out of the tunnel back to the street without causing a jam?

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@minecraftmaster5807 apparently every single house will be connected with every other house by an individual tunnel. 100 houses would require 10000 tunnels intersecting each other on different levels underground. Easy-peasy.

[@dylaancannon6498]

I would love to see the tunnels at capacity as well.

[@shobhit2197]

Damn you can go faster when there is no traffic!!!

[@sebbikul5045]

And that's why they made this video, to show that bulding these tunnels are better then building normal roads

[@rougeandrei9095]

Oh my god!! I can't believe why I haven't thought of that before holy crap!! You're a Genius!!!!

[@nativeam25]

BREAKING NEWS : TRAFFIC JAMS COME TO AN END.

[@gucciogucci1254]

r/ woosh

[@remix50220]

when you take the cheat road ^^ this happen , nice video we want more update continu the good work !

[@jord9261]

The departure happens so fast most people would be dead before they realised they needed to brake

[@Janman81]

Tokyo has lots of tunnels like this, usually with 2 lanes in each direction. They're very quick when there's no traffic; you can get across the downtown core in minutes. If they had a self-driving lane to eliminate traffic jams it would be pretty sweet.

[@brenj]

I wasn't sure they would get a smooth paved road in there that quickly. WOW, if this is the future in 8 years, productivity and travel are going to skyrocket.

[@MartilloWorkshop]

Selfdriving cars will do more for productivity than these tubes will. This test is kind of pointless since it's a private lane for a single car vs a public road full of traffic. Doing the same test with the same amount of cars taking both paths would yield a different, more even result - Differing depending on the allowed distance between cars in the tunnel. I know the "They can dig infinite tunnels" argument, but we know that adding more lanes to a road doesn't always ease congestion. I think the same rules apply to the tunnels. We'll have to see.

[@sakru100]

@@MartilloWorkshop the point is that tunnel can be made 3D as roads are 2D that why adding more lanes is not the same thing

[@MartilloWorkshop]

@@sakru100 it just means you can add more tunnels than you could lanes, but also at a greater cost. The dynamics of why more lanes aren't always the solution also applies the tunnels, unless you build an overkill amount, at which point cost becomes too much of a factor. As I said, we'll see. My main point is that this test is heavily skewed and doesn't tell us anything about the actual effectiveness of a tunnel system with actual traffic.

[@DeeSnow97]

@@MartilloWorkshop The whole point of the entire Boring Company is to drive down cost. They're considering main arteries of 25 lanes, and more importantly a seamless highway-like system instead of traffic lights (3D allows you to sidestep that problem). And yes, you need a ton of tunnels for that, that's why the Boring Co. builds its own TBMs, with the express goal of making tunnels easy, fast, and cheap to build. As for the traffic dynamics, the problem is usually not that there aren't enough lanes. Traffic lights are a much bigger problem, 2D intersections slow down traffic more than anything else.

[@RegebroRepairs]

@@MartilloWorkshop We won't have to see, you are absolutely right. Road tunnels are not a new invention, and just like highways they don't easy traffic, they just move congestion elsewhere. This seems to have been a test for building a tunnel, really. And now they have a tunnel, but no clue what to do with it. Making it a bike path is likely to be the most effective use of it, traffic-wise.

[@joshg6511]

Four minutes saved, but the destination was the tunnel exit, and the starting point was the tunnels entrance..... Also, what happens if a car breaks down in the tunnel? Traffic would be completely halted, and the tow truck would have to back in all the way to the broken down car.

[@MrRiddle0]

The car is on a platform so even in the unlikely scenario that it does brake down it wouldn't block the tunnel

[@crcurran]

@@MrRiddle0 It is NOT on a platform. You need to keep up. Elon Musk says they removed the platform and the vehicle is driving itself.

[@ryanburbridge]

And what i love is the ecological cost of saving a few minutes. Lol

[@manictiger]

​@@jwalker7567 I like to be positive about Elon's ideas, but I agree. That was a dumb statement by kill switch. Everything breaks, ESPECIALLY anything using batteries and capacitors. (Dear god am I sick of capacitors. It's the first thing that dies on any given piece of sh-- "electronic").

[@markplott4820]

Josh - Tesla cars DONT Ever stall out, unlike unreliable ICE cars. Factually there are MORE ICE car fires than Electric car problems.

[@vexaar]

my videogame senses were telling me you could just drive on the wall

[@coolcat-nq4mj]

He just invented a road tunnel, without multiple lanes

[@chummychutoy]

I dont see any not a flamethrowers. What has this company become?

[@ayoutubechannelname]

Bored.

[@Mortequal]

Well, apparantly they derailed from their first plan.

[@Qwerasd]

Ah yes, now make a tunnel for every car on the road, to and from every possible combination of locations.

[@AsthmaQueen]

almost... like building more roads???? This is just a ridiculous publicity stunt, the tunnels cost per mile is literally the same as normal tunnels the difference is the ones Elon is drilling are freaking tiny and just not going to be viable for actual movement of vehicles. Real tunnels cost ALOT because they need to be large and need to have various safety features that are included in that size. This tunnel if 1 Tesla broke done or crashed/caught fire it would suffocate everyone caught in the congestion extremely quickly. The point of engineering is to make things as unbreakable as possible, but Elon's projects almost all have integral massive single points of failure that have been well addressed. Yet he's trying to resell 'his' ideas as new ones to pump up his brand. Its a load of crap, period.

[@davidbeppler3032]

@@AsthmaQueen Please explain how there would be congestion if a car somehow crashed/caught fire? You know electric vehicles have reverse? An amazing concept I am sure, but it is true. Also a Tesla could reverse at 127 mph down the same tunnel it did 127 mph forward in... that would be weird. Also since all the cars are on autopilot without drivers mucking things up they would all move at the same time clearing the tunnel in a very short time. On another note, the typical TBM tunnels at a speed of 60 feet per day. Boring company TBM 2.0 is estimated up to 850 feet per day. You might notice a difference. Granted the size of the tunnel is also smaller reducing the amount of impact the digging causes and the waste material removed. They also use modified Tesla Model X cars to haul 125 ton sleds of stone from the tunnels.

[@trabladorr]

​@@davidbeppler3032 The entrances /exits are obvious bottlenecks. No matter how fast cars can reverse, that lift is excruciatingly slow. Vehicles also exit back into the same crowded streets, with many cars around still wanting to get onto the track making traffic worse. An ambulance will take hours to provide help, and the tunnel will be offline for even more. Let's not even talk about what happens if two cars break down, trapping people in the tunnel for a day.

[@davidbeppler3032]

@@trabladorr why do you insist on only one lift for 100,000 cars? There only one on ramp to each highway? Car queued up for miles waiting in turn to get on? Why do you believe there can only be one tunnel? Emergency vehicles will use the emergency tunnel. The thing that does not exist on current highways btw. No emergency lane for safety so in deadlock the two cars sit for hours and the people burn to death in the instant gas fire caused when two ICE touch.

[@trabladorr]

​"Emergency tunnels" are a figment of your imagination. Have you read the Dugout Loop proposal? That's the most concrete plan they have, and there are no emergency tunnels, just emergency exits spaced about 0.6 miles apart. If a tire bursts at 150 mph, emergency personnel will have to carry the injured up to half a kilometer by hand.

[@rafi7252]

Plot twist: the boring company is created in the intention to create a place to stay for the lizard geniuses

[@ronessimenaldo]

I like how they used the same colour car to make sure it was a "fair test"

[@jetpackdino5703]

That's great and all, but what if everyone wants to try it out?

[@hellsgate09]

Well, not a problem here considering that's BC's private testing tunnel. If they were to open it, you'd have to pay to use it I would assume. A semi-private toll road underground, of sorts. At least, if I were responsible for a city's traffic I'd have those in addition to one or two primary underground tunnels that are public and maybe two-lane to otherwise offload/divert traffic.

[@Dufffaaa93]

This is only for the rich.

[@DoktrDub]

Dufffaaa93 Well boring company ain’t too rich so I guess having a private tunnel isn’t too out of the question as long as you can actually find one and rent it, should only be about three fiddy

[@bigbaderek1978]

its literally a pipe dream

[@code5298]

@@DoktrDub you know elon owns it right?

[@drumslayer27]

Elon musk might as well make one from his house to his office, cause it seems like that's all this is for

[@mishanya2077]

Going through the tunnel kinda looks like warping through space. cool

[@AngelLopex300]

When you're messing around in the tunnels in GTA 5.

[@eborgelin1]

Assuming you can afford building a private tunnel from your home to your workplace, this is brilliant. Or maybe you could develop the concept further building a high capacity three lane tunnel under the streets for public use - oh no, wait that concept isn’t new.. 🤭

[@BlindMango]

But what about when the tunnel opens and there’s a line to get in? Lmao

[@Pointyy]

This is a proof of concept!

[@h32bro]

What a cool concept, hopefully it'll come to life soon

[@bycasito6144]

Bro invented subway

[@mustafahumar4386]

I'm not convinced. The roads are full of cars whereas the tunnel had only the car being tested. How would the tunnel cope with hundreds of cars ?

[@justkiddin1980]

Yes just watch thunderfoots video on the topic...

[@mustafahumar4386]

@@muhamedc9713 look how long it takes to get down the lift into the tunnel. It would takes hours for thousands of cars to do this.

[@mustafahumar4386]

@@muhamedc9713 I don't understand. Are you in favour of hyperloop ?

[@mustafahumar4386]

@@muhamedc9713 where are you from? Are you an engineer ?

[@mustafahumar4386]

@@muhamedc9713 I'm currently studying medicine. I was born and bred in the UK but originally from Pakistan.

[@MikeeCZ]

An empty tunnel is faster than a busy road. Well done!

[@MikeeCZ]

@Vedran Tonković You didnt get my point :) The volume of traffic you can get thru tunnels without making them completely full and clogged up is fractional compared to conventional roads. Not even mentioning what happens if someone gets stuck for whatever reason. Stops the entire vein. For me, the way to smooth traffic is autonomous driving with each car communicating with each other to find optimal way to get thru situations on roads. Of course that would just mean even more and more tracking of our location etc.

[@MikeeCZ]

@Vedran Tonković You cannot just truly believe that digging this much into the ground is possible or viable. Do you have any clue how excessively dug up the undergrounds of large cities already are? With all sorts of things from sewages, various fibres and cables, simple concrete supports for very heavy buildings, etc. It is busy under the ground in cities. It is not limitless space by any means. I hope I am wrong and that you are right :) I just really doubt it.

[@MikeeCZ]

@Vedran Tonković Sure, i only used to dig in urban for living, but you know better :) Dont forget to give Elon more of your money for these genius ideas.

[@habspuck]

But how long is the wait to get into the tunnel if you're not the only one wanting to get in...

[@aaaknowkneemoos4811]

now imagine that loop is full of cars because more people use it then it would also be congested, its basically just underground taxi

[@mouzVID]

With such few side margin, I guess tyre failure wood make and awesome show

[@CreeplexHD]

For some reason, I never expected any car to ever reach 200km/h in that tube. Well, this prove me wrong.

[@army6669990101]

Well now I want to know if the Tesla autopilot doing the driving? Or will it be up to the driver?

[@refink33]

@@army6669990101 no way in hell a human should be driving 127mph in a tight tunnel. never

[@army6669990101]

@@refink33 I know right. If not then those tunnels would need to be exclusive to teslas, or other selfdriving capable cars, and would need to have a way to let the car know the route, or max safe velocity, i assume would vary from model to mode.

[@GaminGilmore]

army6669990101 If only Autopilot capable cars could take it then it would also clear traffic on normal roads. But I think the Boring Company plans to have tunnels with sleds in the future.

[@usnavyfish]

The car has special guide wheels that buffer it against the side of the tunnel. No steering necessary

[@noahsno6503]

I thought this was disbanded and abandoned! I'm so excited it's still being worked on!

[@tim..indeed]

On the left you have a road transporting hundreds of cars. On the right you have a road transporting one.

[@error_1105]

When you take an underground shortcut in NFS

[@Epro95]

Make your own creative comment instead of stealing someone else's.

[@error_1105]

@@Epro95 Don't copy Chris Evan's last name

[@Deathbynature89]

I'm sure if the other guy had a private road without traffic or a speed limit he'd go pretty quick too. This doesn't fix LA roads, traffic or public transport, it just creates a privately owned bypass for those who can pay. Google the "O-Bahn Busway".

[@MoraleSdlq]

Deathbynature u mean if the other guy was on the same road than the first? Yes, thats the point

[@sebbikul5045]

There would be multiple tunnels going downwards, and A LOT of cars could be driving in the same tunnel at the same time

[@kushalamruthraj3626]

Traffic in the left cam is a paid actor

[@criznitty]

I still feel like someone’s gonna hold up tunnel traffic trying to make a left

[@deadlymassacre1]

One car at a time though versus thousands on the street

[@davidbeppler3032]

You could send another car every few seconds down the tunnel at 127 mph. The autopilot would not have a problem with the cars being very close to each other. Much faster and safer than people on the street. :)

[@davidbeppler3032]

@@1WRLD Lmao you think the cars stop. If one of the cars stop, all the cars stop at the same time. No delay, no brake lights, no warning. They all stop. This nonevent is not amazing, or even interesting. They all just stop.

[@davidbeppler3032]

@@1WRLD Yes. Physics. You saying your car does not have brakes? Oh, it does? If you stop does the car behind you crash into you? Maybe. Human drivers are bad. We have very slow reflexes. We have even slower decision making processes. Maybe you mean a car doing 127 mph magically stops in the middle of the tunnel without decelerating or it hits an invisible object and stops instantly? Ok... then the first dozen cars stop HARD as the pile into each other. Just like happens on the real non magical highway every day. Were people die. Because crash tests are only tested at 40 mph. You seem to think the 127 mph is a big catch... it is not. The cars will all stop. At the same time. Hell, they will even reverse at 127 mph if the case warrants it! lmao

[@davidbeppler3032]

@@1WRLD People will not be driving. The car will. People are horrible drivers. The car does not need hundreds of feet to notice the car in front stopping... it will know and start stopping before a human driver would even notice brake lights... which are unnecessary for autopilot. :)

[@ChessDownUnder]

This test is hardly comparable - the bored tunnel only used by your test car whilst the roads were live servicing the city of commuters. The bored tunnels for traffic are an amazing idea for increasing speed for the main leg however the main bottlenecks will be the entry and exit points, with this type of system they will likely be massive choke-points on entry and exit unless there is some very clever planning mechanism and also lots of lanes of these bored tunnels.

[@sulrana1812]

Dont worry I'm sure you're a trained professional and the team of engineers working on this never considered this problem.

[@635574]

We are getting full self driving this year, path planning for tunnels will be trivial and automated.

[@sta292]

Va'kion Inya Are you supposed to accept anything someone smarter than you says even when they gain financially from your believing them? The answer is no. The Boring Company built a tunnel underground without speed limits and that’s it. It’s either going to become just another road that will be subject to the same traffic and use as an above-ground road or it will be limited to a select group of wealthy customers who pay for the use of what is essentially a private road. I’m guessing the latter unless they significantly change the design. Or the whole thing will just flop.

[@ChessDownUnder]

@@sulrana1812 I am not discounting the efforts of The Boring Company, I am just stating that this test video is not really a fair comparison - to compare a test tunnel with a single car versus a live city with real traffic, that is a very loaded test. IMHO this approach of boring tunnels would be more suitable to high-speed delivery of cargo/shipments rather than a mass-consumer play for commuting, i.e sending shipping containers across between cities at high-speed, rather than using large trucks on the road or being limited to shipping to/from shipping docks. If we can get logistics trucks off the main roads then that in itself is a massive win and at-scale will do wonders to lower congestion.

[@gabrielonibudo5710]

Kristian T of course it’s not, the project is still in early stages. It is mainly showing possibilities

[@yehheapsmadaybut]

Dubstep in 2019 is the real suprise here.

[@shafkatshehzad8464]

the slow tesla to the fast tesla ''How was real-life GTA V?''

[@MarshallRichards]

Kind of unfair, wouldn't there also be a queue for using the tunnel like there is a queue in regular traffic? It would be better to compare them when equally congested.

[@YourAssAintSafe]

The point is to avoid traffic.......... one with current traffic ome with no obstructions

[@rallokkcaz]

ur ass ain't safe bruh stop playing like you know how to solve inner city traffic. You probably couldn't city plan your way out of a plastic bag.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@YourAssAintSafe Genius! And the way to solve poverty is to simply move 99% into the 1% so that 1% becomes the 100%!

[@YourAssAintSafe]

@@rallokkcaz what are the dimensions

[@magno5157]

Marshall Richards Not just the queue at the entrance but also the potential traffic at the exit. If the exit is blocked due to traffic...the tunnel can quickly become a regular road.

[@thorthegodofthunder2313]

Oh grandson! Back in the day, we used to have this something called roads!w

[@leodahvee]

There may be some gray area and problems in this, but I've got high hopes for the project

[@yogayoga8603]

This tunnel is very useful for Ambulance and Emergency services.🙂

[@Natewu188]

is that a RGB LOOP???

[@watertriton]

$1 million tunnel save 3 minutes Plus if you had car trouble good luck getting out.

[@watertriton]

Dax Brook the problem with my tassel is that I can’t afford one ;). every piece of machinery will eventually breakdown and those tunnels are small i’m not sure you could get your door open.

[@sebbikul5045]

There would be multiple tunnels going downwards, and A LOT of cars could be driving in the same tunnel at the same time. And they can make longer tunnels?

[@solelgammal]

When you play racing game and you know cheat code

[@TriumphAventura]

that tunnel is the purest definition of bottleneck

[@CoderShare]

Title: Rich guy builds private road to speed around all the peasants above ground.

[@johntheux9238]

It will be open to public.

[@zuppasalata742]

Shortcut discovered

[@samel88]

You knew shit was about to get real when you saw that the guy in the boring tunnel has arrived and the left one still waited for the light to go green

[@xbravo3]

So he just saw that episode of the simpsons where the elite have a secret tunnel under the city. Mad lad

[@tubster01]

This is with no traffic in the tunnel system (you'd have to wait for the lift for each car before you?

[@r.leonardcurtiss8336]

Not sure how that would work but I would assume since all cars in the tunnel would be automated cars, once you're in the tunnel "traffic" isn't a huge concern. I suppose it would depend on how many lifts they have available. Right? The lift seems to move at a decent speed and that could even be something they could improve in time as well.

[@Dragon029]

It's quicker to exit the tunnel than to get into it, so it'd be unlikely (but not impossible) that you'd have to wait for the tunnel to be clear before going down. There'd also be 2 tunnels, 1-way each. A 2 lane, etc road where cars can go bumper to bumper can fit more cars than this tunnel, but the idea is that it's completely offset by how much faster cars travel through the tunnel.

[@kazioo2]

Add more tunnels. There can be dozens of layers of tunnels if needed.

[@kurtu5]

It helps that you can make roads on in 3D space. The cost to go over a tunnel road is the same as going across it, so given the choice of having intersections or 'bridges' the choice is clearly no intersections.

[@paulcmiranda]

Or, just have a ramp at both ends