• galerkin@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    44·
    3 months ago

    “Safer than ever” is a hilarious claim given that cars have a much higher death rate than any form of public transportation:

    Chart comparing deaths per 100,000,000 passenger miles for cars, trains, buses, and planes

  • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    Fun fact, the shinkansen(bullet train) in Japan has had no fatal crashes or derailments since its opening in 1964, and in case you forgot, Japan is constantly plagued by earthquakes.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      3 months ago

      The trains have anti earthquake systems where they do an emergency break in case one is about to hit. It’s pretty genius.