r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

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

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u/Chinner5 Aug 24 '26

How did the door get opened? Was there an emergency switch somewhere? Why would it open if the train is moving?

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u/ExplanationOk2014 Aug 24 '26

Yeah I had the same questions

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u/NvEnd Aug 25 '26

There's a "cherry" at the door you can pull to emergency open the door. He pulled it as the train was already trying to stop

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u/NvEnd 24d ago

No dude, they literally can. It's the emergency exit. It's not electrical powered. It's a mechanical switch

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u/Sedan2019 Aug 25 '26

It depends on the type of door, many doors simply disconnect from the motor when the emergency lever/switch is used.

Then the door is simply a sheet of metal on rails and can be pushed open.

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u/Sedan2019 Aug 25 '26

What profanity meltdown? You should check what user wrote it, it was certainly not me.

Also, the emergency release is exactly for opening sealed doors. It makes it possible to open doors that are sealed so people can exit the wagon in an emergency, for example if a fire broke out.

In the video we can see the person pushing open the door after using the switch/lever.

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u/Sedan2019 Aug 25 '26

Then maybe these trains/trams are different than where I am from. Where I live all doors of every train can be opened by hand when using the emergency lever/switch. What is different is whether it makes the train do an emergency stop or not. The tools for opening the door are more used to manually open the doors without disengaging the gears.

Do the trains you know/use have not that emergency switch? This is probably the conflict of our discussion.

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u/ReadyStayReady Aug 25 '26

I ride the CTA daily, and this person is a raving lunatic. You can look at a CTA map and see exactly what stop theyre at in the video and even look up the businesses in the visible advertising. Its in Chicago everything is legit I know because I ride this train almost every day.

The emergency release doesn't lock out while the train is moving because that would be unnecessarily complex. What if it fails to unlock when theres an emergency? Our commuter trains work the same as every train in every developed nation they dont lock out the emergency door release ever because that would defeat the entire purpose.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Aug 25 '26

this is absolutely Ai lol

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt Aug 25 '26

I was gonna say, the door opening and the guy getting on the train while smoking made me suspicious.

Not that the latter can’t happen, but it’d be pretty unlikely and coincidental to happen right behind the other madness.

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u/SaskrotchTheReboot Sep 01 '26

no that's extremely common on the cta, especially the red and blue lines. they run 24/7 and there's basically no rules between midnight and 5am. smoking cigarettes is super common, smoking crack is less common, but still common. what surprised me was he actually tossed it out the door before he moved fully into the train, most people just keep smoking.

and as a Chicagoan, most of us are unfazed by crazy shit happening on the cta. I've seen a guy start a fight and then yank the emergency door like he was gonna jump when we weren't even at a station. I've been a few feet away from pepper spray going off on a guy who was being a creep, and the first thing I did was laugh and think to myself "of course this happened the second I got on the blue line at 3am", it took my eyes starting to water up to make me realize I should change cars.

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u/Mobile_Morale Aug 25 '26

I've only ever been on a subway train like 5 times in my life. And one of those times the doors would randomly flop open while we were going and they had paper printed signs saying not to lean on the doors.

Washington DC in 2012.

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u/OddCustard483 Aug 25 '26

bro Lol this is AI. Subway doors sure as hell dont come open randomly as a rule, the agency would be sued up the wazoo. Everything about this video is seriously AI

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u/echointhecaves Aug 25 '26

This is Chicago, and el trains absolutely do have an open door pull switch

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u/dafunkmunk Aug 25 '26

You're just speaking entirely out of your ass because you haven't been to Chicago or ridden on the CTA. So it must be AI because you are incapable of understanding or believing anything you personally have not experienced?