The [tunnel’s] accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”
I mean no shit this tube wouldn’t even be allowed for strictly automated transport of goods in Europe. And USA lets cars with people inside drive that deathtrap.
I was honestly a bit shocked when I first saw videos of it.
It’s so narrow, it looks like you can’t even open the car doors properly and that in a tunnel filled with lithium gas bombs.
You can’t open the doors at all… And regardless of what kind of car it is, every car can burn or explode.
Yes, but other cars aren’t operating inside enclosed tunnels at all times.