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Detroit transit officials looking into 'unsafe' incident where 2 horses boarded public bus - ABC News (abcnews.com)
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[–] 10 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

I don't think it should be allowed, but I wouldn't complain if there were no incidents.

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  • [–] 33 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

    Unfortunately if the bus got into an accident, they're half-ton freestanding projectiles inside a passenger cabin. People would probably die that wouldn't have otherwise.

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  • [+] -13 points 21 hours ago* (6 children)

    So are some humans, what about luggage and other stuff? That logic could apply to anything. I had to take the bus because my vehicle battery is dead, and I’ve got a 20kg solid brick taking it to get a new one basically. That’s gonna do more to someone than a horse.

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  • [–] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    How are you comparing a 500kg horse to a 20kg piece of luggage? That's more than order of magnitude less, plus luggage doesn't tend to be propped up high on legs.

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  • [+] -6 points 20 hours ago*

    Does the concept of surface area not exist to you?

    Getting crushed by a horse may be survivable, but a battery bouncing up and hitting your head isn’t going to be.

    Why would you think it would stay only on the floor? The horse would fall over likely and only take the feet out. So that’s not as dangerous in that situation either. But neither are the only possibility.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    No, horses are still bigger than a car battery.

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  • [–] -2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    Yes that’s why it’s potentially less dangerous. Surface area. You may survive a horse flying at you at 50 km/h, but a battery will take your head clean off.

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  • [–] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Surface area.

    Surface area has little to do with this equation, it's the mass; a flying horse will have much more inertia behind it, even at lower speeds.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago*

    more inertia behind it

    And what do you think happens when that inertia has 5000x the surface area to disperse that energy….?

    Also, you seriously need explained the difference between something that is deformable and something that isn’t?

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