This undated conceptual drawing provided Elon Musk’s The Boring Company shows a high-occupancy Autonomous Electric Vehicle (AEV)
that would run in a tunnel between exhibition halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center proposed for Las Vegas.
Two Strip resorts plan to dig tunnels to whisk passengers to and from the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is already building an underground people mover.
Wynn Las Vegas and the under-construction Resorts World Las Vegas announced today they are seeking Clark County approval for projects linking to the Convention Center transit system, which is expected to be finished early next year.
“This is a great step to take this from the Convention Center campus out into the community,” said Steve Hill, CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “We’re talking to resorts throughout the community. It’s more than two that want to do this. These are the first two that make sense.”
Tesla vehicles would transport passengers underground from Wynn Las Vegas and the adjacent Encore to the Convention Center in less than 2 minutes, officials said. The trip from Resorts World would take about the same amount of time.
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