According to foreign media reports, Elon Musk's "The Boring Company" recently launched a test of Tesla's "supervised Full Self-Driving" system in the tunnels of the Las Vegas Convention Center, but the technology still faces challenges in reaching maturity. According to Steve Hill, CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, while the test vehicles are equipped with safety drivers, manual override is still required "from time to time," and large-scale deployment is "still quite a ways off."
The tunnel network, which has been in operation for four years, currently serves only the convention center and surrounding hotel areas. Although the company plans to expand throughout the city, progress has been slow. In theory, the tunnel's simple structure should facilitate autonomous driving, but in actual testing, the colored lighting and semi-flat rock walls frequently lead to the system encountering "difficult areas," particularly during stops at underground stations. This contradictory phenomenon contrasts with Tesla's self-driving taxi services in Austin and San Francisco. Despite Musk's repeated public praise of the technology's superiority, reliability in real-world scenarios remains a bottleneck.
The technical difficulties reflect the differences between autonomous driving in closed environments and on open roads. Hill noted that the lack of GPS signal and unique lighting conditions in tunnels force the system to constantly adapt to the dynamic environment. The gap between the Boring Company's expansion ambitions and current technological limitations may be the real issue that Musk needs to address as a priority.
