The Boring Company’s Las Vegas loop is attracting riders, and trespassers

In Brief

The Boring Company’s 2.4-mile underground Loop in Las Vegas is proving anything but boring for management, with at least 67 trespassing occurrences since 2022, according to a deep dive by Fortune.  

Designed for Tesla models to shuttle passengers underneath the Las Vegas Convention center, others who’ve found their way into the tunnels include a skateboarder, a photographer, and unauthorized vehicles tailgating the Teslas into the tunnel stations. Some people are undoubtedly trespassing out of curiosity but others are simply confused, with drivers mistakenly thinking they’re entering parking or rideshare areas. (So they tell convention officials, anyway.)

The Boring Company has taken steps to slow the flow, including installing license plate readers to block unrecognized vehicles. And though the outfit’s grand plans to build an autonomous, high-speed transportation hyperloop appear stalled indefinitely, more than 2 million passengers used the system between its opening day in June 2021 and November of last year alone. In the meantime, its colorful tunnels continue to attract public curiosity — whether Boring Co. likes it or not.