Hey Tonks

That reminds me of the Worst Case Scenario Daily Survival Calendar I bought myself for Christmas. Some of the days, it has a "which is your worst case?" question with no definitive answer.

For Wednesday, January 24:

Which is your worst case?
Being in a car with no brakes
- or -
being on a runaway train?

Be aware:
* You can't move to a safer crash position before impact in a car.
* You can't steer the train.
* If you pull too hard on the car's hand brake, you can put the vehicle into a spin.
* If you apply the brakes on a train, there is the possibility of derailment.
 
Car definitely...trains derailmants are nasty and the car has a seat belt. I'dd take the spin of the car anyday.
 
Anyone driving a manual would pick car. I can stop mine without brakes fairly easily, given that I survive the event that I was braking for in the first place.
 
Given enough distance both can be stopped without using the brake system.
 
I know, we just need some extra data to know which one to choose.

Personally, I'd go for the car.
 
Car. It has airbags all over the place... and not having a certain sense of control of destiny is just too unnerving. At least in driving a car you have the ability to try a multitude of techniques to slow down. A train is a heckuva lot trickier... unless the train is just grinding along at less than 15 mph. In that case I would just hop off.
 
train.

plenty of beer in the buffet car - and depending what you are travelling past, easier to jump out of rather than crash.
 
On BritRail, I might have gone that way. With the EuroTrash that's taken it over.... I'd rather walk.
 
EuroTrash in so far as you've got to check on a german website for the London-Glasgow schedule and can't get ticket prices in Sterling. Fuck 'em.
 
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