Autonomous testing of Tesla cars has begun in the 3.5-mile tunnel system that Elon Musk’s Boring Company operates below the Las Vegas Convention Center .

“We’ve started to test,” Steve Hill, CEO of city marketing organization the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), told Fortune in an interview in his office earlier this month. Hill specified that the autonomous testing had begun prior to Tesla’s robotaxi launch in June —at the end of 2024—and that no passengers have been in vehicles during the testing.

Thus far, all of the initial testing has been done with the standard Full Self-Driving (FSD) software that consumers can get in their personal Tesla vehicles, and with a Boring Company safety operator in the driver’s seat, according to Hill, who awarded the Boring C

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