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Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by mritun on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:21AM (#35816822)
These are uniduct tunnels. There’s no emergency exit. Any fire in these tunnels will be a disaster.

nb. In tunnels, the smoke kills.

Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by fooker on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:45AM (#35817262)
How is this working out for planes?
Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by electroly on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:48AM (#35817324)
Take a look at the number of deaths from smoke inhalation in any plane crash report, and that's with emergency exits. That's people who survived the actual crash and died from the fire. A fire in a plane is indeed a disaster. Fortunately, planes don't crash nearly as often as cars do.
Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by 0_____0 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:52AM (#35817389)
Really well, thanks for asking. It's amazing what a culture that takes safety extremely seriously, and has pragmatic systems in place to learn from incidents, can produce.

Commercial air transport is THE safest mode of transportation in terms of deaths per distance traveled.

Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by dmonitor on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:53AM (#35817415)
Do you have a source for the tunnels not having emergency exits or being dangerous?
Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by martythemaniak on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:10PM (#35817725)
Have you ever seen a real subway system?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground#/media/File...

TBC tunnels have more room to exit and maneuver than most older subway tunnels.