Schadenfreude Abounds After Elon Musk's Traffic-solving Tunnel Swamped With Traffic

Elon Musk believes car tunnels are the way of the future in public transportation. His Boring Company has implemented this theory at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where people can get into a Tesla and be driven to set, different locations at the center. According to a November tweet from Musk, this tunnel will be a solution to traffic congestion.

It’s either traffic forever or tunnels. Try our first operational tunnel in Vegas at the convention center! The city just approved a full tunnel network, connecting major hotels, convention center & airport.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2021

Musk may have been tempting fate when he bragged about his Vegas tunnel defeating traffic because video has recently gone viral of his Vegas tunnel being absolutely swamped with traffic during Vegas' Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

2025: This how most will die, asphyxiating in a tesla tunnel traffic jam, which is supposed to be impossible pic.twitter.com/9DDX5PU83w

— pixelnull… Certified Illuminati Strategy Architect (@pixelnull) January 6, 2022

As explained by a driver, the traffic seems to be caused by one of the "stations" in the convention center being closed. As one might imagine, the videos of one of Musk's ideas failing in practice amused his critics and led to an outpouring of dunks on social media.

Elon Musk said his tunnels would fix traffic congestion, but even his shitty Las Vegas tunnel is already getting backed up. Who could’ve predicted this?! 🙃 pic.twitter.com/iNiyPnGDeJ

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) January 6, 2022

It turns out the congestion-busting “future of transport” is already experiencing congestion. pic.twitter.com/yJY9b0Nwjj

— Adam Tranter (@adamtranter) January 6, 2022

Elon Musk has never ever talked to anyone that had a commute through a tunnel and was regularly faced with the soul-crushing claustrophobic traffic jams that regularly and inevitably occurred when a singular dipshit drove his car into the tunnel walls or hit someone else. https://t.co/LeLJbRFJI2

— Jenn | זלדה 🏳️‍🌈✡️🏜️ (@JennieTetreault) January 6, 2022

Here's a traffic jam in Musks gamer tunnel. The one thing Musk said we needed to avoid traffic jams lmao. pic.twitter.com/UscqeKWSte

— Amos (@AmosReborn) January 6, 2022

Perhaps Musk may be wise to consider an alternative solution to his tunnels, one that takes people along a set route, dropping them off at stations on the way and runs on a fixed schedule.