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Sure, but you would probably rather be driving a car if your bus driver was suicidal that morning.
by googlryas 4y ago
Sure, but you would probably rather be driving a car if your bus driver was suicidal that morning.
- hgomersall 4y agoHow many suicidal bus drivers have we had? I mean ever.
- TylerE 4y agohttps://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz5kk/bus-driver-china-killed-himself-20-others-home-demolished https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dz5kk/bus-driver-china-kill... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37328824 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37328824 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-08-me-52192-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-08-me-52192-... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/10/12/ttc-driver-charges.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/10/12/ttc-d... (Not a suicide, but it's on topic)
- egypturnash 4y agoI just searched for “bus driver suicide” and it was a pretty even split between stories about drivers saving people who were trying to kill themselves, and drivers killing themselves. The latter was very much largely happening in solitary ways, except for one dude in China who drove his bus into a lake.
- jeromegv 4y agoEven if that happened, how many people can seriously be injured in a bus accident in a city? Not talking of bus going through mountains and losing breaks
- dahart 4y agoThis goes straight to the article’s point that we tend to care about things that don’t actually matter as much when they seem worse. The hypothetical bus driver suicide seems bad if he takes out other people with him, it’s easy to imagine being a passenger with no control and meeting a terrifying doom. Let’s just nevermind that it almost never happens, and forget that suicide car drivers is a much, much more likely occurrence in the real world. And bad drivers accidentally taking out people near them happens way more often than anything to do with suicides. You’re far less likely to be killed on a bus than in a car, hands down. Wanting to drive a car instead simply highlights our flawed emotional thinking.