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Ok, but what about car jacking? Have you done the statistics to figure out which is safer? Also what about risk of health via car crash? https://www.startribun

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• gjsman-1000 5y ago
  Carjacking around here tends to take the fake-accident tactic. This is where the criminal bumps you enough to think an accident occurred, you pull over to exchange information for insurance, and then the criminal pulls out a gun. I have a few notes. 1. Even though this is incredibly scary and stressful, the percentage of people actually shot in carjackings is almost unheard of. If I had a family, it would be a better trade to lose my car than to have one of them sexually assaulted on a lightrail, or have myself get a knife somewhere (both of which have happened within the past few months). 2. Carjackings can be (partially) avoided. The police have sent out warnings in the city that if someone bumps you and you suspect a carjacking, go to the nearest police station or at least drive to somewhere with a lot of cameras up close and witnesses (gas station?) before exchanging information. This means that carjacking still has some preemptive measures I personally can take, whereas riding the lightrail, stuff just mostly happens. 3. The map of carjackings in Minneapolis has far more people living in that area than people riding the lightrail. The lightrail, by number of people traveling on it and by size / concentration of people within a given area, is much more dangerous.