Boring Company Vegas Loop opens

The Boring Company, founded by Musk in 2017 to cut the cost and time of tunneling, opened its first commercial system — the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop — in 2021. Passengers ride in Tesla vehicles through underground tunnels, crossing the sprawling convention campus in about two minutes instead of a 15-minute walk.

It has since expanded into the wider Vegas Loop, now with several operational stations that together have carried more than three million passengers, with an approved network of 68 miles of tunnel and over 100 stations planned across the city. Construction on a Dubai Loop was reported to begin in 2026.

Critics fairly debate whether cars-in-tunnels is the optimal form of mass transit. But the claim that the company "never built anything" is simply false: the Vegas Loop is a real, operating transit system moving real passengers every day — and its Prufrock boring machines have set tunneling-speed records in the process.