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matt3210yesterday at 9:55 PM4 repliesview on HN

Public transportation in a lot of places isn’t safe especially when traveling with women or children


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drewmateyesterday at 10:12 PM

Women and children aren’t inherently dangerous. If you just avoid eye contact and keep to yourself, you should be fine

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array_key_firsttoday at 4:33 AM

This is just simply not true, not if you compare apples to apples. Cars are the most dangerous form of transportation and nothing even comes close. You're 100x more likely to die in a car above the subway in NYC than on the subway. Thats not an exaggeration, that's the actual figure.

And then people invariably talk about theft or getting beat up, forgetting that most car accidents don't kill, they injure. And they're extremely expensive.

Cars might FEEL safer because you're in a little box away from everyone else. But it's the exact same everyone else. Still the same amount of crazies and sociopaths.

Except now, they're also in little steel boxes that weight 2,000 pounds going faster than any human was ever meant to go. And they're in full control.

venturecrueltytoday at 1:07 AM

Must not be enough cops to either stand around and do nothing or beat the wrong guy to death then.