alt Hacker NewsThat has been true in the last century, but now the classic collisions are way rarer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster .
I would actually sit in front now. Sometimes you would be able to still get vital information and being actually able to act. But the safe decision would be no to enter the train.
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barbazoo • yesterday at 5:39 PM
> Sometimes you would be able to still get vital information and being actually able to act.
Optimistically assuming you have a minute to react (I'm imagining closer to 10s), what could one possibly do?
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> But the safe decision would be no to enter the train.
You might just as well never leave your bed, that's even safer ;) Train travel is much safer than travelling on roads, and in the same ballpark as commercial flight.