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> Trains are much more dangerous than cars (bigger, harder to stop, even trams) but I don’t worry about them as much, because they rarely leave the rails and th
by tstrimple 1y ago
> Trains are much more dangerous than cars (bigger, harder to stop, even trams) but I don’t worry about them as much, because they rarely leave the rails and they’re easy to predict.
It feels like you're contradicting yourself here. The restricted tracks and predictability make them by definition more safe than cars. And that bears out in fatalities. I get what you're going for in that trains are more scary from a mass standpoint, but we don't measure safety by how dangerous things look. We look at actual metrics. And trains are safe.
- bombcar 1y agoTrains are safe because they’re dangerous - nobody wins the fight with the train, and it can’t even try to avoid the fight, so everyone learns to give them a wide berth (and accidents that do happen are almost universally blamed on the non-train). Cars suffer from too much maneuverability - they do avoid most of the incidents and accidents.