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Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

It would be interesting to test different environments.

Looks like the purpose of the study was to find out if people could empathize based on a virtual experience, so the scary vibes made sense. If they were measuring how much fear people experienced in different locations, that'd be a whole other thing.

That said, I've ridden rail transit in cities from Vancouver to London, I've never once seen barriers between the platform and the tracks.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    They are called platform edge doors and they are common in Asia, and rare in Europe or the Americas. They make the platform a much more pleasant place. Full height walls and doors makes the platform be a normal interior space.

    If you've travelled that far you have seen those doors. They are included on every automated people mover at airports. Securing the track area is required for driverless operation, so every automated people mover will have them The doors are seen as optional in most subways and light rail so they are often cut from the project.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Makes sense, I've never been to Asia and I was only in Europe for a couple weeks, so the only European airport I saw was Heathrow, where I took the metro.

    I'm not disagreeing that it's safer to have a barrier, or saying that barriers aren't a thing, just that it's common enough not to have them to be used to it. I don't think about that danger. I haven't seen a space like that before, no.

    I lived in Vancouver for almost a decade, where the trains are driverless and there aren't walls or barriers, even at the airport.

    But I did just learn what an automated people mover is, and some of them are adorable.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    just that it's common enough not to have them to be used to it

    It's the difference between public transit as a public service vs. public transit as a profit-making venture (in some places) or at least as public service being "run like a business" (more common in the west).

    As soon as "business" is uttered in the management of something, you get to cost minimization and life-saving measures tend to cost money. They're thus the first things cut unless forced otherwise by regulation.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Not always full height, but always high enough you can't easily go over them, yes. I'm actually shocked all the time now when I visit places like Toronto and Ottawa and see how unsafe the subways are.

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