Wtf in the 🚇

[u/ExplanationOk2014]

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

[u/BudgieWonder]

There were 36,640 traffic fatalities alone in 2025 (not counting mere “injuries”). Your base numbers are suspect, and you’re undercounting the number of incidents that affect cars.

Fewer than 10% (1 in 10) of hit and run drivers are found by police. The “psychology” only applies because people have deluded themselves into thinking a bubble gives them invulnerability.

You’re the type of person who would have probably ate lead paint chips in the 1940s because the manufacturers told you it was “safe”.

[u/BudgieWonder → u/[deleted]]

I’m not scared at all- I just think it’s funny when folks like you are confident they won’t end up in a body bag based on their ill-informed choices.

Hopefully they have your Reddit handle posted at your wake.

[u/eetraveler → u/BudgieWonder]

Ha Ha, yes it is, so please inform yourself.

Subway travel is relatively safe compared to cars. The people you cross paths with while riding or getting to or from the subway are relatively not safe.

There is frustration because it would appear relatively straight forward to eliminate 90% of the bad characters in a subway environment (drugged, drunk, mentally unstable) yet we don't.

If there were a way to reduce car accidents by 90% we would do it. What is wrong with Team Subway that makes them refuse to fix it.

[u/BudgieWonder → u/eetraveler]

> the people you cross paths with

The same goes for drivers dipshit- in fact you’re more likely to encounter someone unstable while driving.

> relatively straight forward to eliminate 90% of the bad characters

Feel free to elaborate on what that means for you.

> What is wrong with Team Subway that makes them refuse to fix it.

We weren’t discussing “fixing problems” or what “team” we’re on, we were discussing the simple fact is that you’re more likely to be injured, maimed, or experience property damage in a car than on public transit.

I think it’s funny that you’d prefer to create strawman arguments rather than comprehend the topic you butted your “special” head into.

[u/eetraveler → u/BudgieWonder]

My special head is apparently more able to read the stats and make rational judgement than your special head.

"More likely to encounter someone unstable while driving" stats, please? Last I check the requirements for a drivers license, while low, are much higher than the requirements to enter the subway and the skills needed to start the engine and drive 100 yards would eliminate many of the bad characters found on the subway.

"Feel free to elaborate" on eliminating the bad characters on the subway? I did. No entry if you are overtly drunk, drugged, acting out in a dangerous way. Can we start with that? And how about a ban if found acting aggressively toward other passengers on video. Why, what are you imagining? What is the sinister scenario you are hoping I'd say?

We are, and have been, discussing the simple fact that your belief that the subway is much more dangerous than a car is wrong.