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The tube follows fixed tracks, which is quite different from cars on a road.


Yeah but look at how normalized it is. All you need to do is slightly misstep, out of the thousands of steps you take, to bump your head on a passing train. You think it’s not possible (part of the trance) but all the parameters are set up so that the slot machine eventually hits the jackpot. You’re 12 inches away from a projectile, and you are to repeat the loop daily for a lifetime. The odds are the odds.


This is why you can run trams in pedestrian only areas and have very few impacts. Trained professional driving it, predictable speed and direction.




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