r/interestingasfuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 22h ago

Tram airbags, coming soon to Zurich

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u/Hopperd12 21h ago

Fun fact. India according to recent data (2024) has had 22413 fatalities involving trains. That like 61 people a day.

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u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir 21h ago

Those poor facility workers that have to clean that up

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u/Hopperd12 21h ago

Right. I’m guessing they have just become numb to the situation.

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u/joshuahtree 21h ago

That fact was not fun

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u/Hopperd12 20h ago

You’re probably right

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u/Kaurifish 21h ago

Still fewer than we kill in the U.S. every day with cars (~100).

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u/Wonderful_Bet_1541 16h ago

But people in India die almost 4x from auto related accidents a day compared to the US.

You are quite literally comparing apples to oranges

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u/Dantioch_IW 14h ago

And Indians killed by car is around 550 a day while in the US 3 people die to trains. Whats your point?

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u/Hopperd12 20h ago

But we are talking trains. Not cars

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u/Narrow-Barracuda618 12h ago

And these are only the ones we know of and are actually reported.