The Boring Company Is Finally Testing Tesla’s ‘full Self-driving’ In Its Las Vegas Tunnels

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Elon Musk’s The Boring Company is yet testing Full Self-Driving (Supervised), nan precocious driver assistance strategy created by Tesla, successful nan tunnels that link Las Vegas’ Convention Center to a fewer adjacent hotels, according to Fortune.

Steve Hill, nan CEO of nan Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority told nan outlet that The Boring Company has been doing tests of nan package for a fewer months now successful Tesla vehicles pinch only information drivers onboard. But immoderate wide usage of nan tech is still “a ways off,” Hill said.

The Tesla tunnels person been unfastened for astir 4 years, and while The Boring Company has plans to grow them crossed Las Vegas, they presently service a mini area underneath and astir nan Convention Center.

Despite Tesla’s caller motorboat of a small-scale, invite-only robotaxi work successful Austin, Texas (and a likewise mini ride-hail work successful San Francisco), and Musk’s boasting astir really bully nan exertion is, Hill said that information drivers still person to “periodically” intervene and return power of nan vehicles.

In theory, nan elemental tunnels should beryllium an easy task for Tesla’s autonomy package to solve, pinch possibly nan top situation being navigating rider pick-up and drop-off astatine nan various underground stations. Hill said nan colorful lighting of The Boring Company’s tunnels, on pinch nan semi-smooth stone walls, person been challenges that nan driver assistance strategy has had to header pinch arsenic nan cars “find spots that are difficult for them.”

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