• mabeledo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Then that’s impossible because I know for a fact that long distance trains have windows. But also, RENFE incident dataset is publicly available and updated in real time, and there is no way in hell the number of reported incidents is higher than the overall number of broken cars, not even if we were to average by number of passengers, and especially given the fact that the average car fleet age in Spain is 14 years.

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      Then that’s impossible because I know for a fact that long distance trains have windows.

      You’re right. You can totally open windows in long distance trains:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewmQjcY3Rc

      But I never said trains break more often than cars, no idea where you took that from. I was saying that if your car breaks down on a highway you will be able to open a window, get out and you will wait for less time to be picked up. I really don’t think it’s difficult to understand.

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          2 days ago

          It’s not just avlo. It’s all high speed trains. People can’t just open windows in trains going 350 km/h. Those are the long distance trains I’m talking about. No idea what trains you’re talking about.

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                  This is what train looks like:

                  With arrows I marked where the door are (more or less). Imagine you’re sitting there with 60 people and someone opens the door at the other end of the train car. It’s 35 degrees outside. As yourself: is this really going to help you? People who talk about opening the door have no idea what they are talking about. It’s like rolling the window down 5 cm in a car sitting in direct sun.

                  Windows in trains don’t open since probably 50 years ago. You can’t open a window in a train going 350 km/h. People are thinking about trains that are long gone in most of Western Europe.

                  And it would be better for who exactly? If the railway company and its workers open the door and people get out they are responsible for them. Train tracks are not a very safe place to be. What if someone has an accident? And we’re talking hundredths of people. Once the train is fixed and it’s time to you, how will you make sure everyone is back? Are you going to count them? Who will do that? Railways don’t want this responsibility so for them it actually is better if people break the windows. They will let people out when the risk of someone dying from heat stroke is greater than someone injuring themselves on the tracks, not when it’s really fucking unpleasant inside.

                  It’s crazy how many people how no idea how trains work.