Cybertruck birthing tunnel at Giga Texas is headed for completion

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Took kind of a long time for such a small tunnel. I do wonder if Boring will ever come close to the speed they claim

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The tunnel was completed fairly quickly. However, the plates they put down for the road portion of it needed to be completely replaced because they were cracking. This delayed the whole project by a lot.

> Boring tunnel is one of Elon's failed projects I wouldn't say that. Still too early to say, just progressing kind of slow the past year or two. I think verdict is yet to be out for a while.

Seattle was doing a tunnel project and the boring machine broke down and was stuck for 2 years. they eventually just dug a pit to get to it and repair. tunnel boring is apparently more difficult than it looks.

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So they used a related company to build a tunnel that enables cars to move more efficiently from the production floor to waiting lot before being shipped? Thats what the hoopla is all about?

Just as a small data point, Prufrock-3 can allegedly tunnel at 145ft per day (0.192 miles per week). This was used for the GigaTX tunnel. Prufrock-4 can allegedly tunnel 3x that, or 435ft per day or 0.577 miles per week. We know Prufrock-5 was teased in the background on a social media post dated Sept 16, 2024.

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Agree, just seeing if I can spark any hope out there for all of us wanting to see this project accelerate!

There is room for improvement in the technology i would suggest that would help the cost economics of it

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Seriously. They aren’t even moving the trucks far. Why is this such a pain enough to build a whole tunnel for it?

The tunnel is to port cars from EOL to the shipping lot. Not sure what you’re asking.

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????????

If Elon Musk stops talking about a particular business he's invested in then its pretty clear he's given up on it and it's safe to assume it's a dead business nowhere close to profitability. Like he stopped talking about hyperloop

Hyperloop was nothing more than an idea on paper to Musk. Hyperloop One was a Virgin company, that I don’t believe Musk was ever invested in.

You are absolutely wrong about Las Vegas being "easy" to build tunnels in. There's a ton of caliche (which is basically natural concrete) in the area, and is a relatively common thing to run into when digging a foundation for a building or digging out a pool, etc.

TLDR: Boring is boring.

It's a road that exists to take cars from the factory to the End Of Line facility across the highway. Railway has absolutely no place in this function.

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It's a known problem, but it isn't known until you hit it. Not making excuses, simply pointing out that it's not "easy" relative to other areas - going along at your normal pace only to hit a chunk of natural hardened concrete that's an unknown length can be a drag, I'm guessing.

Because they can

A railway to move 200 feet?

Because in the near future River Rd will be publicly accessible. The tunnel will bypass that public road they currently have to drive on to reach the EOL building and outbound lot.

I love how confident you are without knowing any details about this project.

Well, Boring was bored and needed something to do.

Yes, and it's for moving the Model Y built there as well. This is actually a big deal if you talk to plant people, because it's a PITA to drive all the way far around the end of the complex to get to the staging area. The roads have low speed limits for plant safety, and it takes quite awhile to get over there. That same area also does finishing/production fixes. The main thing is that each trip will now be far shorter in time.

The tunnel is very cheap and the logistics it adds is useful. It's a $1M tunnel in a $1.1B facility. If they think it speeds up their processes by not having to move the vehicles across a public road and around, then it's worth it

LMAO, right? There are for sure points to be made, and he's missing all of them

The boring company is a fantastic success, but it's in an era of much increased distain. Sure, the boring speed isn't what Musk promised but totall project schedule and cost are what matter. They are finishing extensions and opening them to the public in a shorter timeframe than a surface rail extension is planned, let alone built. But everyone hates musk now (don't blame them) so everyone wants to believe the negatives.  I wish Musk would sell the boring company so it could get out from under the hate cloud

Well, this is just a logistics tunnel at the factory for moving vehicles around. If you're curious how Loop, the transportation system that uses TBC tunnels works, the boring company subreddit has a stickied post about "why not build a metro". The short answer is that Loop isn't actually in the same market as a metro, but more like a tram use case

As per usual, musk's promises are overblown, but whether the product is still useful is independent of his promises. The tunneling speed was always a useless metric. Total project time from contract to completion is what matters... Well, and cost.

If only someone could develop a system where the cars could simply drive themselves.

Giga Vagina™

You want them to load vehicles, which are capable of driving themselves (no external locomotive required)… onto a train… to travel 200 ft… and then unload off a train car again Instead of driving thru a 200ft tunnel?

What it’s like a few hundred feet. It’s just one parking lot to another basically lmfao

But hyperloop was just a concept. He never planned or wanted to turn that into a full company. Hence why he ran contests for universities and why Virgin bought Hyperloop One

Right?! They want to do this, but I don't think it's there yet.

Interesting

There's a highway in the way.

You should look into your claims a bit.

If it was meant to be a "birthing" tunnel, the exit is built backwards. Maybe "puking" tunnel?

> Vegas should be the easiest city to work with because it is so new I don't think that is as much of a factor as the type of soil they have to dig through. That can make a huge difference in speed.

You would assume the longer distance drive is a testing of the product, though. You see other OEMs use that longer route at their plant to do an initial test of the product. My tin foil hat is they used this to slow production and not build up excess inventory. If it weren’t a related company it would make less sense.

Fun fact: the road they dug under has the highest speed limit in the country (85mph).

We should see a car drive from New York to LA by the end of 2018

> so the brightest minds won't be interested in improving boring machines. Unless/until they can explain how its so nice to build bases in bored tunnels to protect against cosmic rays (at least easier than shoveling a ton of stuff on your base), then I'd see renewed interest. This is only relevant after they announce they're actually building bases somewhere with reduced or no atmosphere.

What a waste !

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Let's not call it the birthing tunnel

This is purely to get to them an area where they can do stuff like that. If you look at how the factory works now, cars pile up awkwardly at the central area near where they host parties, etc.

I thought the end purpose of the boring technology was to build habitation on Mars. The current projects serve to affordably develop the technology.

Absolute unit of a birthing canal

Not anymore!

I don't know if it's still true with new cars now, but when we got my wife her Model 3 6.5 years ago it took driving for a hundred miles or so before Autopilot was activated. I assume there's still a calibration/activation period before new vehicles now. If that's still the case, it's not likely a great idea for a car without any real-world driving calibration to be autonomously driving around.

I think they should abort oh wait that’s a crime in Texas

Tesla is just elons cash cow now. Used to funnel money from Tesla to his other companies.

When my wife got her Model Y in 2022, I believe it took ~20 miles to calibrate the cameras.

Having worked in Tesla service I can confirm this is still the case. It varies how much driving it needs though. Clear day light and well marked roads make the cameras calibrate faster but 100 miles is a good estimate for a long calibration

Actually, this is just Mars practice.

rectum would be the correct anatomy analogy