- Authorities in Korea are investigating the deaths of three Hyundai workers in the automaker’s home nation.
- The engineers were working on a static car inside an environmental testing chamber at the automaker’s Ulsan plant.
- Local news reports say the men suffocated though police have yet to officially confirm a cause of death.
Developing new cars can be a dangerous business. You only have to watch in-car footage of any sub-7-minute Nurburgring lap to know that. But now police are investigating Hyundai after several engineers died while their development car wasn’t even moving.
Reports from Korea say the three men were engaged in a complex environmental chamber test, a program designed to see how a prototype car responds to simulated climatic conditions. Automakers use the chambers to subject a vehicle to extreme heat and cold, as well as to other environmental factors like humidity.
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