Tag: baltimore
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company lands $48.7M contract for underground “people mover” in Las Vegas
The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup, has landed a $48.7 million job to shuttle people in an underground Loop system around the Las Vegas Convention Center. This is the company’s first commercial contract. The design for the project, dubbed Campus Wide People Mover or CWPM, will focus on the Las Vegas Convention…
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Review of Elon Musk’s DC-to-Baltimore ‘Loop’ system reveals safety concerns
The Boring Company’s Loop transit system that aims to shuttle people in autonomous electric vehicles between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. fails to fulfill several key national safety standards, a review of its proposal reveals. The system appears to lack emergency exits, ignore the most recent engineering practices and suggests passenger escape ladders that one fire…