Dins del Vegas Loop: com funciona la xarxa de túnels de The Boring Company

And then before we turn again, we could literally just keep walking for 45 minutes and it's it's pretty wild. Pretty wild. >> Do you ever do this for steps when you try and do like get your steps in for the day? >> Left switch. >> All right. So, >> click to the left. >> I'm going to click it to the left. And here we go. Underground station. And this is a self-driving car. And we're going right into the boring tunnel. Tunnel. Nice. And but now look at the reality of what you've done. >> Now that's the dirt. That's you. >> I just did that. >> Yeah. It's the largest infrastructure project in America. I don't know if this is like by if you measure a project by yards of dirt moved or yards of concrete poured. I think it is number one. I'm not aware of something that is larger. It's 10x what a stadium would be. It's it's enormous and most people don't really know about it. And so I had asked one of a friend at SpaceX, I said, "Give me a list of 10 like >> objective but like very like positive people who are on X um who should come see Loop." And then you were on that list. to the team reach out. So, thank you for coming. >> Thank you to your friend. >> Yeah. No, absolutely. So, so because we're on a time crunch, but I just want to show you. Did Matt already go through the map with you? >> Oh, very very briefly, but yeah, let's let's do it. >> Yeah. So, I mean, so it's um it's already one of the larger public transportation systems um in the country. It does um this even just this little section >> um does about um on a busy convention day will do 40,000 people. >> Wow. >> Yeah. Which is more than the majority of like light rail systems in America. Um once we open these two tunnels, which you'll see today, which are two of the longest transport tunnels built in America in the last 25 years. Yeah. Um we think ridership will triple, maybe quadruple, but it'll be And at that point, we're literally going to be top 10 in America for transport systems. And when the whole thing is built out, I think we're two or three. >> Wow. >> Yeah. We'll never pass New York City subway based on uh they had a big head start and it's a much denser city, but it'll be us, DC, um Chicago, and New York. And and the beauty of this and one of the reasons we chose Vegas besides it's like a really good place to do business is is the use case because you basically have the airport down here. >> Yeah. >> This is kind of the top of the strip and that's the top of the whole city. Um you can actually imagine if you were going to build let's say anything that stops like a different type of transportation, bus train, etc. >> Stop stop. >> That's a 90minute ride, >> right? So So you wouldn't build that. No, no one will want that. or if you're like, "Oh, I don't want to stop." So that means that you delete these. You have to walk in. >> You lose the flexibility of being able to go to the point. >> So So the end goal of loop is you could have a station in everyone's driveway. It's because every time you add a station, it doesn't affect the transit time. This to this is like eight or nine minutes, no matter how many of these are in the middle. >> And so therefore, the stations are small. they're inexpensive. Um, and so like you'll see like we'll have stations at these giant resorts which you'll see today, but then you'll have a station like a local taco shop because they can actually afford because a station is just a parking lot, right? So as long as you have a parking lot, >> you have a station and then you're pointtooint from your station to anywhere else in the city. >> And so the unlock there, the reason why you are able to do that is because you have individual pods essentially that can actually take somebody from point to point instead of have some sort of Exactly. cars. Yeah, cars are great. It's funny even having to argue that cars are so great that so many people drive them and therefore you get traffic, right? That's that's like an over demand of cars. >> Interesting. >> So like everyone wants a car, but then but then the problem occurs is that everyone wants a car so you have traffic, but then you have to design your cities around cars. So all of a sudden you have cities between 30 and 80% of the land is used for cars. If you could take all of that, keep the car, put it underground, >> and then make your cities beautiful and parks and pedways and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, >> it's pretty awesome. >> It's pretty awesome. And then and then if you ever get to a point where one, let's say one tunnel chokes with traffic, you just build another one. >> Correct. And then another one. >> There is unlimited room. [laughter] As Elon says like it's you have a threedimensional world and a 2D transportation system. So I always get the question is what if you bottleneck your tunnel? >> If that happens, first of all, what a good problem to have. That means that people like our product. You build another one right next to it. And our secret sauce again, cars and tunnels is not like it's like oh man, >> legendary. Like who would think of this? It it's the the cost and speed we can tunnel. That's the secret sauce because you have you have like you can have subway the subway projects in America cost just to construct ignore operations between 1 and 5 billion per mile. We're less than 10 million a mile. >> Wow. >> So >> and and they're and they're fast. >> So um so that's kind of the secret sauce once you do that. I mean the architecture is great. I mean you'll see you get to a station there's a Tesla waiting for you. The door is open. You get in >> with your friends and family. You go point to point to where you want to go and you get out. >> It's an absolute norain. >> And we have a rule at the company which we have not broken yet that when you get out of the Tesla, you're within 100 ft from the the main front door of the property. So you don't have these situations where you're at like >> um you ever flown like Ryan Air and it's like it's amazing, but like >> you don't end up where you you have to [clears throat] take another trip. So So you don't want to go to one of these properties >> and the landing is not so smooth either. [laughter] >> Yeah. You don't want to have to be like a quarter mile away. You want to be 100 feet away. And that's that's the goal. >> And then what what's what's interesting about that too is with with as cars become autonomous, you could even solve that last 100 foot problem too, right? >> It's amazing. You actually pointed out one of the most important things of the system, which is >> it's the only public transit system I'm aware of where the vehicle can go in and out of it. So you're in our warehouse. We don't have a loop station here, but we have a car. >> So by definition, you're in the system. So what the cars do is they just drive. They pick you can pick you up wherever and drive to the nearest tunnel portal.

Yeah. Go in the loop and then come in and drive to wherever you want to go. So, it does >> even if you don't have a um a loop station at your house, you can still actually have access to the tunnel. We call those annex stations. We I think we have four of them right now. Actually, um I think where you're staying, we have Fountain Blue. >> Exactly. So, we don't have a tunnel into Fountain Blue, but we have a tunnel across the street and then you pop out of the tunnel, cross the road, and go back. Yeah. So, but let's get ripping. >> So, um >> uh >> I just love how passionate you're about tunnels. By the way, >> I love tunnels. [laughter] It's great. You'll start to think about them in your day-to-day life. Like, all you're going to see is like, "Oh, I wish there was a tunnel here. >> This is insane. Why is there no tunnel?" 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And thanks again to our longtime sponsor, Rebellionaire for sponsoring this video. As you know, as cars become more autonomous and and you know, people are going to want to get around more cuz the cost of transportation is going to drop. Boring is a perfect way for people to actually get around, you know. So >> yeah, I think I think you've understood something that's missed, which is the more autonomous cars there are, the more traffic there will be. Exactly. So it's is only one solution I'm aware of. Exactly. Which is mass amounts of tunnels. >> Yeah. >> I guess if flying cars get pulled off, that would work too. >> Um just a different problem to solve. But but getting back to what you actually identified immediately, >> you're in the system right now. You're just on the normal public roads. Yeah. >> And so all we're doing is driving to the nearest tunnel portal and then we're going to dip in, which is right here. >> Okay. Perfect. So, this this it's a non-convention day, which is why it's pretty much empty. But, >> yeah. You want to point the camera out, baby, so we can see us going in the the thing? Yeah. >> We did pass through here yesterday, so we got to see some activ. But, um, >> but but I'll point out a few things. Um, first of all, is is where the station is located. The front door to this hall, which is called South Hall, is right there. >> Cool. >> So, this is like the 100 foot rule. So, you come out of that door, go down these stairs, here's your station, Teslas are waiting for you. >> Perfect. >> The second is the size of the station. This is a large station for us. Most of these it's a third of the size because you only have to fit a certain amount of parking spaces. This one has I don't know 10 parking spaces. A normal one might only have three or four parking spaces. >> So you can basically have very small amounts of land and get a public transportation system. >> Gotcha. >> And then you just need a portal down and you're in the system. >> Look at that. >> And you got some sick lights going on too. That's that's that was the fun part from yesterday was the lights. >> Oh, you already did. Yeah. Yeah, we did it yesterday. >> Yeah. Yeah, we did we did only this portion. >> Okay. Only this portion. Yeah. Yeah. >> Amazing. >> Yeah. >> Well, how's your how's your cell phone coverage, by the way? >> Uh, let me check. Actually, that's a good question. >> Make sure what I'm saying is true. >> Five bars. All right. 5G. >> Yep. And you're about 45 ft below. >> Who should I FaceTime right now? [laughter] >> And you're about 45 ft below the surface. Um, you're underwater, that's for sure. >> This And then remind me, is this the what? This was the first tunnel you >> This is the first one we built in Vegas. Long time ago. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, it's still here obviously. >> Yeah. Tunnels are quite durable. >> Yeah, who would have thought it? >> I mean, they're designed for like a 100-y year lifespan, but what does that even mean? Um, like what actually fails after 100? Um, I mean, you know, Romans have tunnels that have been around a long time. >> So, even though you drove this, this is the whole concept of um >> point to the left >> of um of express, which is you just keep going. You don't have to stop here. If you want to stop, you pull over. >> Uh if you want to turn around, you turn around over there. But if not, you just keep going and not having to just decelerate to zero, open the doors, let people out, etc. And then you keep going. >> And so that's the thought process for every stop you would have like that. You would you would come to your stop, you know, the the passenger. Can they decide where to be dropped off or or do you have to decide before you jump on? >> Oh, I mean when you get in, you tell the driver where you're going, but you can easily change along the way. >> I see. I see. So you're not you're not committed to a specific uh drop off point. You can change your mind halfway through. And if it's fully autonomous, you just I'm guessing you'll just press drop me off here instead or whatever. >> Yep. Yeah. Exactly. And you can see that what we do is we there normal Cyber Truck and we add our traffic management system on a little iPad. >> You want to show that babe on the bottom there under the screen. >> Yeah. >> And you can um like and so for example, if Matt wanted to call in, he could hit the green button that would call the the control center where we just were. So So we're actually surfacing now, but you can you can typically bypass uh any station, but we were just surfacing to show you what this is. >> I see. Um but um so for example, if you that you just saw what that was. It was a ramp. But if you wanted to bypass this is called West Station. Then you would have just taken a right and stayed underground. You'll see that later. But again, look where look where this station is. That's the front door >> of that hall. >> Oh yeah. >> And by the way, you just went all the way across Vegas. Is another thing you don't realize.

>> Yeah. You just went from pretty much the uh you know an eastern portion all the way to to a western portion. When we got picked up from the airport yesterday, we were like I think you made a comment, babe. You were like, "Wow, I thought we were like going around and then >> I thought we were just went in a circle and we're back [laughter] where we came out." >> And then we ended up right here, Fountain Blue. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And so there's actually a tunnel under us right now which we'll take uh we can take on the way back. >> Okay. >> And then uh so you're staying there. So So great. Um and and you can see Rivs. This is a small station. You can see how small they actually can be. The actual infrastructure is about 1,000 square feet. >> Wow. So, and then so using 1,000 ft to get the tunnel to surface. Once it's surface, you can put the parking lot wherever you want. >> Y >> and you can also see when we come around the back here the concept of porposing, which is how our boring machine works. That's the actual tunnel >> on the right here. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, every other boring machine in the world that I'm aware of, you have to dig a giant pit. You drop the boring machine down. >> Oh. >> That we just tilt it down and launch it from the surface. >> So, it saves millions and millions and millions of dollars on every launch. And that's all you need. that much room right there. >> That's it. That's that's the infrastructure. So if you if you can give us that amount of room, you're point to point to anywhere else in the city. >> Was it like 50 by 50 or something? Like how much room do you actually need? >> This one here is 14 by 70 or 15 by 70. >> Okay. So not bad. Yeah. >> Yeah. You can see this is the bypass tunnel I was referring to over here. >> I see. Yeah. >> We have a emergency exit over here. I'm often told we don't have them. We have literally dozens of them. [laughter] >> Yeah. How up? So, how how um h has it been frustrating to communicate to the general public just how valuable this is or is it do you do you find it that it's difficult for the general public to understand the value proposition of because you know cuz in my head I'm like you know people think tunnels and like immediately they're like ah tunnels it's boring like literally like literally right it's like why should I worry about it like like but do you find that once you explain this like it does does a light bulb go off >> anyone who takes the tour you're taking or or is >> they will realize okay got it >> it becomes quite obvious I mean, you just went across the entire city in 3 minutes. >> Yeah, we're on the other side of the street now. [laughter] So, we skipped the entire We skipped the entire strip. The traffic, the craziness at night when it's like insane. You can just hop on here and you're there. >> The the drive you took was 3 minutes. You You should check on like a ride share program. I It was probably about 10 to 15 minutes and it would have been I don't know $15$20. And that would have been a $4 ride on on Loop. >> We went from We went from Fountain Blue to Caesar's Palace. It was 15 minutes and it cost me 26 bucks. >> Yeah. It would be about a 2 to three minute loop ride. >> And how much would it cost? $450 450 a person. Crazy. >> So, have you have you been to this hotel before? >> Uh, no. >> Okay, then we we should get out quickly and show you because it's a good another good show of uh like where the stations are. >> Okay, >> this is a good a good example because this is how you can literally integrate a loop station into an existing parking garage. >> All they had to do to get a loop station was designate a few this area for us >> and that's it. >> So, it's like no different than like having like a ride share spot for like Uber and Lift. It's literally the same. >> Yeah. Just different road network. >> Yeah. So that's like a little map for people like they can see where they can go from here, right? >> Yeah, exactly. So this is this is the non-convention center day map. So that's where you can go today. Now the awesome thing is that in I hope imminently, it should be August. We'll see how how we do. Um >> we open the airport lines. So right now you can do an airport ride, but it's 80% on the surface and 20% in the tunnel, which is not that much better than anyone else. >> But when we open these two tunnels now, it's 90% [music] tunnel, 10% surface the ride. And and at that point, we don't just open that. We open about eight stations along the way. >> So all of a sudden, we're going to go from what we have today, which is, I think, 11 stations to 19 overnight. >> Wow. Uh so those stations are already ready. They're ready dug, ready to go. You just need approval to turn them on. So you're essentially going to double >> Oh, yeah. >> or triple you were saying, right? Yeah. Because now there's airport traffic. There's um we'll be able to go to places like the Sphere, Virgin Hotel, their station opens. Um >> yeah, even some small ones as well. Um and it also connects this this will then be connected through tunnels to the airport. >> How so? How far ahead can you get? Like do regulators like allow you to get really far ahead? So like say you're already in your head, you're like, "Okay, I I want to get this giant thing going. How far ahead of the game can you start digging the and preparing the sort of the places where people can be dropped off ahead of the entire line being done? Is it, >> you know, do you have to get approval for the whole project or can you get approval for each station? >> So, every municipality has a different system and obviously no one has like a loop permitting system. So, it's so we did it very differently here than it was done in Nashville. Here it's it's >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Here it's segmented. So, every new thing has its own permit. Um, so we actually need about 600 permits to do the whole thing. >> Okay. >> So, it's a lot. Now, the city's great and we basically work with them. These are the important ones. These are the ones that we have the contract signed and we go from there and then we kind of permit segment and then the next segment and the next segment in Nashville where we have uh two machines going right now. The entire program was uh was permitted in one shot. >> Okay. >> Which um which I probably should have done here or tried to do here which is my fault. Um but it's where we are. Okay. >> So to answer your question, yeah, you can build stations at risk ahead of the tunnels as long as you have a permit to do so. >> Gotcha. >> And the main this is like one of my favorite hotels in Vegas, but I >> look at the sphere. [laughter] >> Yeah. Exactly. But you can just see like what the experience is. You're you're in the middle of Resorts World >> and then that's all >> and there's a sign right there for Vegas Loop right there.

Elevators to the Vegas Loop. Wow. Okay. So this So this really opens your So you can be part of any major place where people are and all you need is a place to park your car. >> Correct. You just need a small parking garage with a few because the whole thing is you don't need a lot of parking spaces because it's high velocity. During during busy times the cars are just ripping and so you don't need like a hundred parking spaces. You only need like I said the convention center the largest station has I think 20 >> and I think this one is four five >> uh sixes. >> And so the math was 20 20 spots handle 40,000 a day. >> What was that? >> Yes. But but distributed over the whole system over the 40,000 going through. That's that's again why it's a key to have lots of stations because they you know back >> off you can spread out the the >> that's a key part of this where like for example we might do in a station let's say a thousand people an hour and we like people like oh that's a really small number it's like well it's a really big number when you have 100 stations >> it's all about distributing the traffic >> so so the so the more I mean this obviously makes so much sense the more stations you have the more throughput you can have without really materally changing the tunnel itself you're distributing the traffic >> yeah the only place where that breaks down is if everyone is going from place A to place B. But that's not what the that's not what reality is. So during game days, absolutely there'll be a surge right there. But in general, if you have a 100 stations, the stations are >> packed together in general. Like and you can get out where you want to. Everyone's not going to the same place at the same time. Like imagine if you like here, picture you go to like the airport ride share and you surveyed 100 people. Yeah. >> How many people are actually going to the same place? >> 100%. Right. Like 5% maybe. >> Exactly. So [clears throat] therefore, the best thing you can do is give them a car. >> If you give them a huge vehicle, then you're just going to have an empty huge vehicle or a wait time where you wait for it to fill. So you give them a car and get it out of there. So it's really how fast can you load and unload a car? >> Interesting. >> That drives everything. >> And if you ever get to a choke point issue, can you just do like a port like can you add another tunnel for that for that segment and then just marry them somewhere? >> 100%. We already have small portions of this that have two parallel tunnels. Um, and again, if if if the system's doing so well that a segment is bottlenecked, that means it's it's economically doing well, so you can afford to build another tunnel. >> Wow. >> That's why there there literally is unlimited capacity underground. It's just a matter of how fast you can build tunnels. >> Yeah. And scaling it is literally just an engineering problem, right? >> Is how many machines do you have? How many machines you have? Yeah. And how many permits do you have? If you have machines and permits, you can like >> have you had hotels reach out to you like to be like, "Hey, I actually want so like for I'm assuming like uh you know, Caesars and all these places like I'm assuming somebody has been here from those tunnel hotel networks. They're like, "Holy [ __ ] that would have been great to have there." Are you seeing that? >> Yeah. No, BD isn't the issue. Um when we we already have the So when I said we don't have this project permitted, we have it entitled, which means we're allowed to get it permitted. It's like the first step. when 120 um property owners have signed have signed that entitlement. I see. Okay. >> And what we actually do actually just for time we should get rolling. What we actually do it's kind of a funny land problem. Now the strip was one thing. Every single property on the strip signed that that would be imagine being the one that doesn't have loop access. It would be like a weird decision. Exactly. >> But um but if you picture what we actually do when we're tunneling um this is like a very subtle point. I don't know any other companies that would have to do this is picture you're like tunneling down a road and the question is is do you go under the road or do you clip the private property? Um and so we're not allowed to clip the private property without their permission. So what we do is we go to every single property owner and say our machine is going to be here in 6 months or whatever it is. >> Would you like us to clip your property or bypass you? >> And if they if they don't respond or they say bypass we bypass. If they say clip we clip. Now, the advantage of getting clipped is now we're under their property. So, if they want to build a station, they don't have to build a station, but if they want to build a station, they just have to dig down and we're right there. If we're not under the property, now you're hacking up public right away, major roads. Like, are you going to hack up the strip? Like, of course not. >> Um, so, so therefore, >> almost anyone who's really being rational will say, "Of course, clip my property." >> Yeah, of course. >> Even if I don't know if I want a station. And the beauty is because of what I said earlier about um the express nature, they can build a tunnel a station five years from now and it doesn't affect anyone else. >> Wow. So it's a kind of like it's kind of like laying fiber in a neighborhood and then deciding if you actually want to have fiber at your house. >> Yeah. So, for example, we opened like if you look at our tunnels under Paradise, which is um uh the the airport tunnel. >> Um there are more clippings by far than there are stations because a lot of people just said, "Okay, we're going to let's let's wait to see how this how this plays out." >> Um but but they they made the right decision because when they do want it, then the tunnel is right there. So, I'm going to guess this is going to have a similar like, you know, like if you think about self-driving cars as an as an example, and you have uh jurisdictions that approve self-driving cars versus those that don't, >> those that don't are going to be in in a position where they're not going to have this economic forcing function for people to come out of their house. And so, any jurisdiction that doesn't approve it or doesn't have an option for it here, let me open the door for you, baby. We got to be a gentleman still, even though we're in an interview. >> My beautiful wife [laughter] Come on now. There's never an excuse to not be a gentleman. >> His priorities are correct. >> You know, there you're going to have >> on camera. >> Yeah, of course. >> Yeah, exactly. Camera >> like and subscribe. [laughter] >> Um, you know, you're going to have jurisdictions that like will look at these other places that have self-driving cars and then >> they're going to be economically disadvantaged because they're not going to have people that otherwise couldn't have afforded to say get a job or go out or do things >> there.

those economies are going to be thriving that have the self-driving cars versus ones that don't because the cost of transportation goes down. Boring stuff like this like having the optionality to have that station at your place is going to have that same function forcing function because it's going to uh increase the number of people that could go to your place. >> Yes. 100 100%. Yes. I mean, it's even in like residential. Like, picture that we we have all this land um that we we tunnel next to. Like, you can build an apartment complex on there and you have a loop station in the basement. So, anyone that lives there goes down to the bottom floor and there's a Tesla waiting for them >> and they can go anywhere in the city. >> Like, this sounds like a very like appealing way to live. >> 100%. >> Um >> uh Yeah, at least to me. Yeah. And same thing with their business. That's why I kind of made the joke that we've had we we signed a station deal with a with a coffee shop >> a few weeks ago, like a little coffee shop. Brilliant. >> And and and so it's literally on the map it's going to say, you know, MGM I hope MGM Grand would um that isn't isn't final yet, but it says Encore and Westgate and etc. Um and then um you know, X Coffee Shop. >> Yeah. >> Like [laughter] they have the same exact map um label and the same um font as everyone else. Oh, by the way, this is perfect. Um, that would have been us surfacing. So now we are bypassing >> and we're continuing >> and continuing. And now I mean it's literally an underground network here. >> You can keep going back where we came from >> or >> we take a we take a turn and now we're going somewhere else. >> Wow, that's so cool. >> Yep. And the key here, which is I know it's obvious, but uh is that um if our traffic management system is working correctly, um you shouldn't stop, >> right? >> Because you can avoid intersections. uh you go over each other, right? >> Gotcha. I got you. >> But but yeah, it's literally an underground network um >> that is not without intersections um >> with like very safe cars um and and no weather and no pedestrians. It's works out great. >> It's brilliant. >> It's really brilliant. Yeah. I just the the the one thing that I I still can't get get out of my head. It's like the the advent of autonomous transport married with this is just such a huge boon to to get people from place to place. It's like such a no-brainer. It's such an absolute no-brainer. Like to me, it's like if any if anyone's watching this video that's uh owns a business or has the ability to do something like this, like if if I if I was one of the owners of the casinos or whatever, I'd be like I'd be like, "How can I get Steve here ASAP?" Like, I need I need this, you know? That's the I mean, it's it's the it's such an thing to do. >> Yep. >> You know, how how hard has it been uh navigating the regulatory framework outside of places like Vegas? cuz I'm assuming I mean I know you guys have multiple projects around the country but it's I mean has it been difficult or is it something that's just it is what it is we have to go through it kind of thing. >> No in general we only go places where where people are are welcoming. Um [laughter] >> that makes sense. >> It's it's one of those things where um it's going to be unique right cuz it's loop if if someone wants to solve the problem they'll solve the problem. If they don't want to they don't they won't. Yeah. Um, we're actually the construction site now, but I just again wanted to show you, >> you know, very large resort >> and this is the portico share. >> So, like the front door is right right there. >> Perfect. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> But, um, >> awesome. >> Yeah. Let's go look at a construction site. >> So, this is our latest our latest body. >> So, so describe to us where where we are, Steve, if you don't mind. >> So, we're in the airport tunnel, which is not yet open to the general public. Okay. Um, this one goes across the city, 2.3 miles um from Westgate through about eight stations to a piece of property uh just um just north of the airport. >> Okay. >> Uh so we hope to open this uh imminently. But this gets you a good sense of like what the tunnel actually again >> notice the lack of touch hazards. There's nothing like nothing you can touch. >> So if I touch this, I won't get electrocuted. Okay. Ready? >> Now the guys just painted it. They did a good job. So, it's harder to see the the leak. There's a good one. It So, remember I said everything is underwater. >> Yeah. >> Um >> So, so once we finish doing the tunnel, um we come back and we have to actually like seal every single leak. >> Wow. >> Um etc. >> So, right now we're literally underwater. >> Oh, yeah. >> Literally underwater. >> Yes. Like very very very very deep. >> Okay. What material is >> actually I should say this right here is a cross passage. So, >> so this is actually a Yeah, exactly. [laughter] >> So, this is actually um >> Oh, so we can kind of see like can we actually uh can you walk us through like the different >> Let me see what's in here. It's a little messy for now. >> Okay. So, I was going to say like here like can you maybe walk us through this like like what are the different materials? >> Oh, sure. But so but conceptually so we have to have exits all over this thing and so we have sometimes exits go to the surface. Sometimes the surface isn't accessible. You have an exit path into a tunnel, another one of our tunnels. So, we've built, I believe, seven of these in in Vegas. And and these are actually harder to build than this >> because this you have a machine, etc. This is pretty much hand >> dug. Those are super complicated. >> Got it. >> Um, >> Got it. That makes perfect sense. So, what's the material you guys use for this right here? What is this? >> All All steel reinforced concrete. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Cool. >> I kind of like the white look. >> Yeah. I kind of like it a lot. >> And especially when you're driving fast, any of the imperfections will kind of go away. Um, another kind of cool thing is like what's underneath us. Okay. >> So, you don't see a lot besides lights, but there's a ton underneath you. So, underneath us, we run >> um a fully charged uh automatic uh wet stand pipe >> and and if there's ever an issue, the fire department can come lift up this right here. There's a hose valve right under there. And um let's see if if we get some light on it. >> You can see the hose valve right over there. >> Okay. Yeah, I can see it. >> And they can they can hook into there. >> Okay. >> And uh >> Wow. >> Yeah. And what they got to do and even like those holes were designed for the fire department gloves.

So we basically made a bunch of designs and said which is the easiest for you to lift with your gloves. >> That's what they picked and then we go from It's, you know, that's that's the t small stuff when it comes to like thinking about the tiny little details that make something like this easy to sell is like even like that kind of attention really like highlights is like, hey, we're trying to keep everybody in mind here. We're trying to like make sure all the different variables are accounted for. >> Definitely. Definitely. >> And then before we turn again, we could literally just keep walking for 45 minutes and like [laughter] it's it's pretty wild. Pretty wild. >> Do you ever do this for steps when you try and do like get your steps in for the day? The other thing I just wanted to show was was all of this. So >> um so this is um what's it called? >> Network, but under here there's RFIDs for navigation. There's three different navigation systems. There's a comm system under here. There's electrical, there's internet, there's drainage. Um there's so much going on underneath here. Um we basically have to become our own utility because you have miles and miles and miles of tunnel. Yeah. So, if you have a leak or let's say you're just cleaning the water, cleaning the tunnel, the water has to go somewhere. [snorts] So, we have a drainage system that's long running all over the city that ends up in a wastewater treatment plant across the city. >> Wow. >> Like we run power often miles and miles. Um we run our own um own internet because like we have to have your own network. And so we have, if you actually do it out, um, because we run thousands and thousands of strands, you end up with literally, I think the number, it's insane, but it's something like 10 to 20,000 miles of fiber strands that are just running through this. >> Dang, that's wild. >> It It's It's an insane problem. >> Wow. And so and and this so that that actually begs the question too like how much how much does the >> like how much benefit is there to the city to have something like this because you can naturally run all the different cabling and even like I don't know like piping or anything. Could this be outfitted to do like dual purpose or even single purpose? >> 100%. We we have we run a ton of spare conduit under there in case we forget something or in case someone wants to add it's it's going into a different business model. Like I've always said that in an urban setting, all utilities should be in in in tunnels because if not, every time you install it, you hack through the asphalt. >> Every time it leaks, you hack through the asphalt. If it does leak, if it's a water line, you flood the street. It's supposed to you flood the tunnel. >> And then anytime you want to service it in tunnel, you just walk in the tunnel. And then if it's oops, I forgot a fiber line. Oops, I forgot a power line. You just run it through here. >> Exactly. And so it ends up actually being less expensive >> to tunnel than to hack up the asphalt. Not even considering not even considering the like inconvenience to all the people when you're closing roads. Like we've never closed a road. >> Wow. >> Like doing all doing all this infrastructure. >> Like why would we need to? We're we're just we're just under everything. >> So So l literally regular life continues for everybody around the city. >> Yeah. >> You guys just literally just go underground. You got to do what you got to do and then you get the approval, it's open and all of a sudden people can get places. >> Yeah. Yeah. All of a sudden just one day the machine the the the only impact to the city during construction is while we're building it, there's one site which is our launch site where the dirt is coming out >> and then we're trucking it away. >> Yeah. >> So at that site, if you're like really paying attention, you be like, "Oh, that's where it's happening." But meanwhile, the machine might be 3 miles away. >> Gotcha. >> Um so >> Gotcha. So from a construction like you know you know it's like you might be on a major street and they want to do like a minor upgrade to a light pole and they have to shut you know shut a lane >> that's happening around us all the time where we live. [laughter] >> Yeah. So you basically have this major infrastructure project that that nobody even knows is happening which is which is pretty great. >> How long does a tunnel like this take to to finish from say start a project till you're ready to turn it on? >> It depends which machine we were using. >> Okay. [laughter] What's the range? Our older machines are are much slower than our newer machines and now we're at a point where the uh the buildout takes as long as the uh tunneling. >> No way. >> Yeah. So the machines have gotten faster. >> Wow. >> So now we're trying to get um our buildout to be faster. And then so you tunnel then you build out and then you commission. >> So for that tunnel we were just in, we're in commissioning. >> Okay. >> Um and then once it's fully commissioned and approved, we can >> go. >> Yeah. >> So the tunnel is done. >> That that one is. And then the one next to it is like 95% done. >> I think we still have to like pave it. >> Gotcha. But you can picture like >> Yeah. >> Those two tunnels that you came in over are the strip tunnels. >> Yeah. >> These are the airport tunnels. Now they connect here. And maybe we even add in this and then you can add in surface drive. >> Wow. >> So awesome. >> Yeah. And what's one of the things I the teleport comments is always awesome. The um everything you're going to see today is like 5 to 10% of the project. >> Like it's impossible to show everything. Just there's just so much impra. Yeah. >> So just like be like, "Oh man, Warren company really did a lot here." It's like, "Oh, I agree." >> Yeah. >> But it's like 20 times that. >> Yeah. >> How big it actually is. >> How are you guys thinking about like the capacity of the vehicles that you're going to be running through the tunnel? Are you guys thinking about doing one specific type of setup? Like here, got to be a gentleman real quick. >> He's got this master, huh? We we just like jump in the car to get out of the heat as soon as possible. Yeah, >> it's so hot. >> I'm sorry. >> It's all good. Um >> do you guys prefer the say like a like a four-seater setup, six-seater setup, a two-seater? It does not matter. >> The average number of passengers for a trip is around two. >> Yeah. >> So to start throwing like very large vehicles at it would wouldn't make sense, >> right? >> Um and there's a reason Cyber Cab I assume has two seats, >> right? Um, >> so we do have we have cyber trucks. We do have um a few six-seaters, but in general >> point that way a bit at the tunnel. >> In general, unless um like I said, you're going to the same place at the same time, you want the smallest >> Yeah.

>> possible vehicle. And obviously for um the Robo Van, I believe does fit in the tunnel. >> Oh, it does. >> Yeah. So, so for like for like game days and airport stuff, >> um that that is an option. >> Wow. Um but uh but in general like the I mean you know from your normal life like how what percentage of trips that you've taken have less like could could not fit in a car >> like >> oh I mean it's vast majority is me or me and my wife or me and my child you know >> and like nowadays it might be a three thing like me my wife and my and my child but >> outside of that like the typical I know there was a stat that said something like 88% of all traffic in the United States is two people or less. Exactly. >> Or something. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And that's because that's what people want. That's what I want. And then you just have to make sure that you have enough, you know, road [laughter] >> to do it. >> Um Matt, are they doing encore rides today? >> Yep. >> Oh man. Okay. Oh, you're going to have a good little surprise. >> Okay. Sweet. >> Well, we'll tell you in advance. Um we're doing FSD trips >> uh right now. Um >> nice. >> And so you can uh you can take one. >> Yes. [laughter] >> Yes. >> But and by another example, if you want to get out at this station, you would have veered to the right. Yep. >> If not, you just keep going. >> Yep. >> How are you guys thinking about um you know, one of the things that we cover on the channel is like how a lot of the technologies that Musk companies are are building are also transferable to moon and Mars, you know, like human or robots you can use to build out stuff on moon on Mars. You know, self-driving electric vehicles. They make a lot of sense on the surface of some of these little planets, you know. >> Did you see how we just paused for 3 seconds? That that was an error. >> Oh, really? So, so like that was so this is now it's in my brain and when we get back that that shouldn't have even though the pause was tiny. >> So that that was a routing problem. >> Yeah. Something happened where that car there was either a speed thing. I mean not major but but we you you were stopped for an extra one or two seconds that we and it should have been zero. >> So it's something that we'll end up looking back at and saying what just happened there. >> And so you so you stagger the Okay. So this you set the speeds of the vehicle so that they never run into an issue. I mean, at some point it becomes impossible, but like in general, yes. Um, that's always the goal. They're they're routed um into different tunnels. There's different um paths you can take. >> Um and so so yeah, so something just happened there. >> Got it. Um >> but again, just think of the bar here like like I'm like annoyed about this this uh 3 seconds. >> Yeah. >> So um you know, another really cool stat about loop is the median wait time systemwide is 0 seconds. Wow. >> So, more than 50% of people don't wait. The mean wait time is obviously not zero. It's like 30 seconds, >> right? >> But >> yeah, that's still far better than any other. >> Yes. And I remember I get annoyed when like sometimes if we mess something up, it's like 90 seconds. Like, oh, it's [laughter] terrible. >> Yeah. >> Have you seen what this looks like when it's when it's operating? >> No. >> Here, let me uh let me grab a video. >> Pictures, too, in the stairwell. >> I'm I'm going to show them the uh the the video. But this is called Central Station. And it's like the flagship station for the uh the convention center. >> Sick. >> We we came through here, right, the first time we were coming. >> This is what it looks like when it's rain. >> Oh, yeah. Wow. >> So, >> here babe, you want to put your So, that's that's uh basically busy day. Wow. So, like look at all those cars. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Holy moly. >> And that's if there's like an event or something going on. >> Yeah. That's like a pretty normal uh convention day. I think this might have been CES. >> Wow. Look at that. Yeah. The thing that stands out, there's never really people waiting. >> There's no lines and you can see the car skipping the station. That's that's the key. >> Wow. >> That's so sick. >> Yeah. >> How cool is that? >> So, this is um so station's closed. So, we got to take the emergency stairs out. >> Okay. >> But I think we have good artwork there. So, >> that should be worth it. But, >> but this is the thing again where if you and I just went and like ran in that tunnel, that's where it all >> You wouldn't run. I would walk. [laughter] >> I got to I got to get back in the gym. One one other thing I didn't point out there is um I'm often told that we don't have a ventilation system. >> Um so we actually have a fire rated redundant birectional ventilation system. Okay. But because it's not like aesthetically pleasing, we hide it. >> Okay. >> So we actually have like enormous numbers of fans in this station. >> Okay. >> Um that are there um and all of our tunnels um because obviously if there's an issue, you have to be able to blow the smoke in either direction. >> Yeah. >> And you can actually switch the direction depending on what the fire department wants to do. >> Okay. >> So this is the main entrance for the convention center. So you remember the escalator we didn't take it would have taken you out there. >> And that's the front door. >> Gotcha. Well, >> and and by the way, that's the Montreal station. >> Oh. >> So you have a choice. >> Yeah. >> Like >> Yeah. >> Um and so yeah, this is we're going to do an FSD ride. This is one of the cool this is one of the coolest things we've built. >> Let's go. >> But I just want I just want you to see where you're going. Okay. >> You're going to the Encore. >> All right. >> You're going to be there in less than 1 minute. >> So we're going to go to that building right there. >> Yep. in less than one minute. Correct. In a self-driving car. >> Correct. >> All right. That sounds cool. >> Enjoy. I've taken it a million times. Have a blast. >> Okay. Thank you. How's it going? >> Hello. >> All right. >> How are you? >> I'm doing pretty good. Thanks for asking. >> And the self-driving vehicle? >> Fine. >> Oh, man. All right. >> How you doing, sir? >> Good. How you doing? >> I'm doing pretty good. Thanks for asking. >> Of course. All right. So, we're going to do a self-driving >> Yes, sir. >> ride. Here we go. >> I'm going to record this. Are you okay with me recording it? Okay. >> Well, yes, ma'am. >> All right. So, we're in a Model Y on FSD and we're going through the uh tunnel network for Vegas loop. We're at the LVCC underground station. And this is a self-driving car. And we're going right into the boring tunnel tunnel. Nice. How cool is this? you know, and it's it just makes so again like when I was talking with Steve, it's like it makes so much sense to do this like >> these cars, you know, we have we have a Tesla at home and we've been using FSD for years >> and it's like you're not going to like try to um you're not navigating around traffic.

You don't have kids or people walking in front of the It's just a tunnel. >> Very, very convenient. >> Yeah. you. So, you're the one who operates the the self-driving Model Y. Okay, nice. >> That's awesome. >> How do you like your job? >> I love it. >> It's fun. Yeah. >> I work for Tesla, but yes, it's real fun. >> Oh, okay. Sweet. Yeah. Yeah. I used to work there uh between 2017 and 2021. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah, I worked in the operations side of the business. >> Cool. >> Nice. So, they basically yanked you out of Tesla. They're like, "Yo, come operate the FSD car for Boring." You're like, "Hell yeah, let's go. [laughter] >> Let's do it." That's awesome. So, this is a different tunnel we're taking back. >> No. >> Or is it the same tunnel? >> Bidirectional. >> Oh, really? Okay. Got it. >> Birectional tunnel. >> That's cool. >> So, it's the same tunnel, but you can go either direction. >> Correct. >> Oh, >> interesting. >> So, like the other cars where we just left at, they're waiting on the the um the gate arm to go up and light to turn green for they can come this way. >> I see. >> Very cool. And so, those are the lights, I guess. Like red and red red and green. Okay. So it's it's very similar to like how the subways do the lights, I guess. Like you can go here, you can't go there kind of thing. >> You don't realize how steep it is until you're walking. >> Yeah, I know. My heart rate was like pumping walk Steve took us to walk up one of the tunnels. >> I was freaking sweating. >> Awesome. How cool is that? That was great. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate you, man. Thank you very much. Thank you, >> man. I could give y'all a tour. >> Awesome. It was so fun. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Enjoy yourself. Thank you, Matt. >> We survived. We made it. That was awesome. >> Pretty cool. >> Super cool. >> Let me put this faster than that. >> Oh, this. >> Yeah. Yeah. Right. [laughter] >> It was like a a birectional tunnel. So, are all tunnels birectional or >> No, there's only two. Soon zero. >> Um, and you can see there's the second one. >> We'll hope to get mining pretty soon. I don't know where they are in the phase. >> No problem. >> But, um, >> so mining is dirt out and segments in. >> Yeah. >> So, how do you get the dirt out? a a it's called a continuous conveyor. It's just a belt that is extremely long. So when you build a 2 and 1 half mile long tunnel, you have a 2 and 1/2 mile top supply belt and a 2 and 1/2 mile bottom return belt. So it's literally 5 miles of continuous rubber belt that all runs through this cassette. This is all built 100% by boring company in Texas >> in our factory. And that's how you get the dirt out. >> And this is a bass drop, right? >> Everything. So we build >> everything's back. Yeah. So on Proof Rock one, we built about 30% of the parts. On Proof Rock 6, >> okay, >> it's about 99. >> Wow. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So, and how many machines do you have going right now? >> Uh, we have seven operational machines. By end of the year, it'll be 11. >> Got it. >> And then >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um, but yeah, so the the amount of dirt is underestimated. Um, 1 foot of tunneling is a garbage truck, a dump truck of dirt. One foot. So, by definition, a mile is 5,280 dump trucks. >> Wow. >> It's insanity how much dirt's coming out of there. >> Holy moly. >> Yeah. So, so often when we're ripping, the bottleneck is the dump trucks on the surface. So, even though we're trying to fight traffic, we often get hit by traffic. >> Wow. >> So, that giant hit is called a muck pit. All the dirt ends in there. >> Okay. >> And then they fill up a dump truck. But you can imagine if we're ripping >> Wow. So, I should start a dump truck business in Vegas. That's probably a good idea. >> Correct. Or you do what we did. We start We're starting to build service tunnels >> to get our dirt away. >> So smart. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, that's part one. Get dirt out. >> This is part two. Get segments in. This weighs 24,000 lb. >> Wow. >> And the machine is about a half a mile away. >> Holy moly. >> So, what this is You recognize this? >> Yeah. >> This is a Tesla Model 3. >> No way. [laughter] >> Yep. >> This is a Tesla Model 3. >> Yeah. >> That's hilarious. >> It's called a liner truck. We ripped out the battery. We ripped out the drive units, all the electronics, and we gave it a very unique chassis. >> Wow. >> This is controlled from Texas. >> No way. >> All We have a fleet of these. And you'll notice the cameras all over them. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so this whole fleet, we have a global operations control center in Texas that literally drives these. They can drive on the surface through the tunnel out of here. You can see there's two more over there. >> Wow. >> And this whole it's a whole fleet of a different type of Tesla. And anytime you need to get something in >> so sick. >> So the range >> unlike a Tesla 300 whatever miles, this range is like 15 or 20 miles. >> That's good enough though. >> Yeah. So you you had to rotate. >> Wow. Exactly. >> So this basically goes flat out the whole time. Obviously you move all this weight. >> They never stop. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> That was the tunnel you just saw. >> Okay. >> That if we we could have walked the whole way. Yep. >> And then right over there, it's hard to see. That's where you started the tour at that front door. >> Gotcha. >> So that that completes the loop. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All of the operation um typically takes place from Texas. Um and then we also have a control center here. So you can obviously if something went wrong with Texas, you can control it locally as well. >> So our our our aspirationally the goal is to be a continuously mining Zpit zero people in tunnel machine. >> And so if you look at our newest machines um like our first machine had like 12 people in it and then went down to nine. Our newest machine you only actually need two people in the tunnel. >> Oh wow. >> Total. everyone else is on the surface controlling uh from from the Texas the Texas site. >> Yeah. >> Um >> and so that's kind of the first key is getting people out of the tunnel. One thing we've Elon pointed out is like why are people even in the tunnel, right? >> Like like oil and gas goes miles and miles at smaller diameters without any people in there. Why what what person what engineer along the way changed it to put a the second you put a person in there, >> right? >> Your entire machine becomes a safety system. So, if you look at the front of the machine, it is more than half of it is safety systems. >> Wow. >> Um, as it should be because there's people in there. But the question is, why are there people in [laughter] there? So, um, the goal is to get everyone into the control center.

Um, and it's super hard, by the way. Um, but again, we're down to about two. And the nice thing is the two people aren't on the machine, they're behind the machine. Okay. >> One is putting up belt and one is helping with utilities. But those are hard problem solve. If we can solve those two problems, it goes to zero. >> Fully autonomous. >> Uh, fully no people involved in. So does that also reduce the complexity of the machine as well cuz then you don't have to account for >> Oh yeah. >> You can build them faster become easier to manufacture. I'm assuming you don't have the human factors engineering becomes a whole whole much easier problem. You can you can stuff more power in there etc. And so so that's the first main goal is ZIT. The second main goal is called continuous mining. Um what that means is um so right now we're not mining. This is a problem. The reason we're not mining is because we're building a ring. >> Why are we not doing these two things at the same time? So our newest machines can actually do them at the same time which took about 4 years for us to figure out how to do >> and so that by definition pretty much doubles your speed because in a normal machine including most of our at least older machines um >> you push you build you push you build and that's considered normal but I consider build to be a failure because you're not pushing right so the goal is to be pushing while you're doing the build which is quite difficult because >> you have a bunch of propulsion cylinders in the way so you basically have to do a big dance of getting them out of the way while you're pushing. Yeah, >> you got to balance your torque so you're not going like this. But we figured out how to do it. Proof Rock 5 now does it. Um, and so if you have a continuously mining remotely controlled ZPIP machine, >> your cost of tunneling, >> is comically low and your speed is comically high. >> We're like already we're like well below 10 million a mile um um for this, but it will start to converge to like 4 to 5 million a mile, which if you is actually cheaper than a a highway lane >> in in America. The cost to build a highway lane in like rural areas is between I think like two and five million and in urban it's like 5 to 20. >> Wow. >> If we're below five, >> one lane. >> One lane. One lane. Yeah. Well, welcome to infrastructure. Um yeah, if you're if we're below five, why would you ever build a road again? Why would you not repurpose the surface land for cool stuff? >> Y >> and put all the cars in the ground. So, >> left switch. >> All right. So, >> click to the left. >> I'm going to click it to the left. And here we go. >> Perfect. Got to come up one more time. Cool. We're top of ramp there. Go ahead and get our GCS on. All right. And then these values are going to start to rise. It might fall and rise a couple times. Those VFDs are trying to get a good >> It's like pressure to like pressurize the system, I guess. >> Exactly. Exactly. Pressurize so that when we're moving forward, we're not clogging those ports. >> Got it. >> All right. Then we'll open our screw doors just a little bit. We can see on that top left camera there. >> Oh, yeah. >> Live feed up there. >> Open it just enough for some mud. to come through. All right. And then if you want to click this knob to extend, which will be one click to the right. >> All right. So, one click to the right. >> Yes, sir. Parameter set. And I'm very confident that you will be entirely good >> pushing all the way. >> I'm going as as slow as possible. >> You are all good. >> But you're going slow. You're slowing it down for you. [laughter] >> I started the belt for you. It's going to start that side belt that's outside to the muck pit. And that's going to start that main belt. >> I'm all the way on plus. Perfect. Sounds good. >> And then we're >> Did I break anything yet? I'm good. Okay. Not yet. All right. >> Our belt is running. So, we're going to go ahead and go clockwise on the screw. One click to the right. >> All right. One click to the right. >> Yep. And that's going to push out the mug to our belt system all the way to the mug pit. >> There it goes. >> Whoa. >> You're officially mining. >> Yeah, we are mining. >> Holy [ __ ] >> Can I put this on my resume? [laughter] >> That would pretty that would be a very unique. >> How cool is that, man? That is so good. >> I really appreciate this opportunity, man. This is so sick. >> This is awesome. >> And remember, so um how long will this push take? Like 15 20 minutes, I think. >> Yeah, ideally 10, 15 minutes. Um depending on ground conditions. >> Yeah. >> Um >> and in that time, five dump trucks get filled. >> Wow. So we're literally actively mining and it's moving all the crap out, all the dirt and everything >> from from across the city. This machine is not near us right now. from across the city and it's going to put it out out here for the dump trucks to take and then eventually it'll be some sort of service lane that will take them there. So you can actually haul this stuff 24/7 basically. >> Wow. Cool. And then basically everything gets controlled from here but then you also have one in Bashrop as well that you can use. >> This is normally Texas but we we did you a favor today. >> That's awesome. [laughter] Well, I really appreciate it. How cool is this, man? What was your name? >> Conor. >> Conor Farza. Very nice to meet you, man. Thank you. >> That's so awesome. >> But now look at the reality of what you've done. Now that's that's the dirt. That's you. >> I just did that. >> Yeah. >> You want the last or you? No. >> Wow. >> So 2 and 1/2 miles away. We turned this >> This one's only half mile. >> Half a mile. Okay. So half a mile away. I I turned some knobs and now the thing is mining and it's bringing all the >> dirt. The machine is right near the Encore building right now. >> That's where >> So that's the machine. Okay. So what we just did if you want to point the camera over there. The machine's there by the Encore building down there and it's bringing all the dirt across >> and it's putting it here. That's so sick. So, each one of these runs is about 15 to 20 minutes. >> What' you say? >> Oh, sorry. Each one of these runs is 15 to 20 minutes roughly or >> Oh, the pushes. It depends on the ground. So, it sounds like we're on good ground. He said 10 to 15 minutes. >> Okay. Um, >> so good ground means that you don't have any like uh major rock or obstacles and everything like that. >> It actually it just it it depends like um rock can actually be good sometimes depending on the type of rock. Um but you can hit some really bad rock and in that case your your mining rate could slow down by a factor of 10, but if you're in good soft ground, you can do a push in 5 minutes depending on uh on what's going on.

>> Wow, Matt, I just pressed some buttons and a bunch of dirt's coming out. >> That was so sick from across the city, bro. >> Yeah. Oh, awesome. >> Um, sorry, you were talking about rocks, >> Steve. >> Yeah, just before um this this is it. This is your construction footprint, >> man. >> And that's crazy. >> Like major infrastructure gets built. >> Um, you know, you put it kind of off to the side, not a very large trafficked area. Yeah. >> And like that machine's going to be under the strip in >> I don't know, two weeks, three weeks. >> Wow. >> GB next. >> Uh, yeah. Yeah, that sounds good. Um, oh, I was say about rocket. So, uh, Vegas is generally soft soil, but there's something called Khichi here, which is like 10,000 PSI rock that just appears in pockets, and all you can do is just go through it. Um, but the way the machine when you hit that propulsion uh dial, what you actually did was you were pushing against the tunnel itself. This is like how does that machine which has millions of pounds of thrust actually move forward is to push off something. It pushes off the tunnel. So in other words, like you'll have like you have your segment, your tunnel is just sitting there and you put a propulsion shoe against it and you push push push push push. So the tunnel is actually not designed like the driving load case for the tunnel is actually not the ground. It's the boring machine. >> Wow. >> And the boring machine pushes against it and that's how it moves forward. So you picture literally that's a million pound machine and the whole thing has to push against our tunnel in order to move forward. So that's why the tunnel is actually so beefy. >> Wow. >> But then so then so that's so we built that machine. It took a long time to get it get like pretty good. And then we accepted the um the project in Nashville. Um but Nashville is pure rock, limestone. >> Oh. >> Um which means in most places, not all, but in most you don't need a liner because the rock is like 14, 15,000 PSI. It's better than concrete. >> So like there's some cool pictures we posted on X of like our guys in the tunnel and everyone's like, "Oh, how'd you make that surf that finish?" And we're like, "We didn't. That's literally the natural rock of Nashville." >> Wow. So, it's way um faster and way less expensive. But then the question is, well, how do you move forward if you don't have a tunnel to push off of? And the way you do it, it's pretty wild. This thing called gripping, which is instead of pushing like this, picture like you're in, you know how like you can do like the acrobatic drip where you're like, let's say you're in a tube and you want to hover, you just push really hard against the tube. >> It's that except you push with 4 million pounds horizontally. >> Wow. >> And that's called gripping. And then you mine forward and then you ungrip and regrip and ungrip. And so it's a it's a completely different machine. So in order to do the national project, we had to um design a new machine. >> Holy. >> That had a completely But with that said, it's actually way faster because you don't have um a liner. >> Um there's actually three I didn't even show you there. There's actually three major subsystems >> on the machine that you can just delete, which is the ultimate Elon strategy. You can just delete the three most complicated subsystems. >> Uh so the national tunneling will actually be much faster than the the Vegas. >> Wow. >> Um and and less expensive. Is there is there an opportunity to have a a onesizefits-all boring machine? >> Yeah. I mean, we could use proof rock in Nashville as is, no changes, >> but it would be super slow. Super super super slow. There will be some small tweaks we have to make. And we actually do have we call it a rock conversion kit that takes a proof rock and makes it better in rock. >> So like it it it changes a few things. So in case we the reason we made that is in case we ever have an alignment that's um soft soil and like a large amount of rock, we could use it. But but the problem is if you optimize for like everything, it ends up just being eh of course for everything. But but um but we do have it. >> Gotcha. >> So um so so it does exist and we could just use it. But I mean this other machine is like we call it proof rack MB. It stands for main beam. >> Okay. >> Um is just way way way faster. >> Um >> that's sick. >> There's just less to do. Yeah. Yeah, >> like I think there's less than half the sensors on it. Um like remember that whole system of bringing the segments in. >> So you have to have the liner truck to bring it in. Then it's grabbed um like unloaded. You have to unload 24,000 lbs, you know, six segments. Then you have to move them forward. Then we call them shuffling them forward. Then you have to grab it with the erector and erect it and put it there. That that that's deleted. >> Wow. >> We don't need any of that. >> Another thing which we didn't talk about is when you um Oh, by the way, this is the road to the airport. We have a tunnel on this side of the road and we have a tunnel on that side of the road. >> Okay. >> Like our tunnel is under that property >> right here on the on the on your left. >> Yeah. The station one day. >> Wow. >> Our tunnel tunnel is under this property. >> That's so sick. >> And this is our headquarters and our tunnel is obviously under our property. >> Wow. >> And that was that was part of the sort of like the we discussed clipping. That's where you that those are the benefits you get by. >> So we clip them. We clip them. We clip I think we don't clip them. [laughter] >> Okay. >> Why wouldn't you want to be clipped? >> Yeah. I mean, it's usually bureaucracy. >> You should have like like a like some sort of campaign that says get clipped. [laughter] >> Really? >> Like, what's a clip? What do you mean get clipped? >> And so, like this this property um used to be a Gordon Beer Brewery. Do you remember that? Do you know that chain? >> No. >> It's it's like it's like a restaurant chain. Um >> it's still in business, but this one ended up going out of business. He's up in here. Um, >> so the reason we we bought this property was actually not for a not for the office. Okay. >> It was because we try and get a lot of land along the alignment. Um, because it makes tunneling faster. >> Um, and actually I'll we'll wait till we're out there. Um, >> yeah, >> but uh I'll kind of point out what I'm talking about. >> Sure. How many how many different kinds of uh like types of like rocks and materials or whatever are you going to ultimately be hitting in the United States? Is there like a like four or five or is there like you don't really know until you get in there. >> The two machines will be enough. >> Oh, really? Okay. So, you won't need more types of machines.