Este é "The Tunnel Ahead", de Alice Glaser, que pode ser lido na edição de novembro de 1961 de Fantasy & ; Ficção Científica .
Um resumo da entrada de Alice Glaser em A Enciclopédia de Ficção Científica :
(1929-1970) US writer and editor, a Radcliffe graduate and social activist who lived in Paris for several years before returning to New York to become an associate editor of Esquire magazine (see Slicks). Her one sf story is the frequently anthologized "The Tunnel Ahead" (November 1961 F&SF), reminiscent in some ways of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (26 June 1948 The New Yorker). In a overcrowded, Dystopian future when the US population has reached one billion, a family returning to Manhattan (see New York) from the crowded beaches must drive through an 8500 foot tunnel – the only way into or out of the city. At random intervals some ten times per week, the tunnel is sealed off and the occupants of the 700-odd trapped vehicles are gassed to help reduce Overpopulation; nevertheless this risk offers city-dwellers their only excitement in life. Glaser also contributed nonfiction to Esquire, but published no other fiction. A short film adaptation of "The Tunnel Ahead" directed by André Øvredal, who made Trollhunter (2010), is in post-production in Norway.
Foi a resposta para o conto dos anos 60, os carros-robô viajam por um túnel, os ocupantes são liquefeitos e Procurando por uma reportagem sobre o controle populacional via férias de praia , e aceito para o último.