Aboard the driverless trains on the new Southwest Sydney metro line.

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Looking through the front window of the train at the tracks ahead.

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[–] 16 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I fucken love riding the metro in the tunnels in that position. I feel like I'm about to be attacked by Wesley Snipes or a humungous turtle.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

    Wesley snipes never attacked Indy?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Is this the rear or the front of the train? It'd tell me if this is an emergency exit from the train or from life.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    They run on the left, so this is the rear.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    @Tanoh @jellyfishhunter Usually, yes. But (at least last weekend) trains at the Bankstown metro station were terminating and then pulling out of the platform on the right. (You can see the crossover just ahead.)Which is how I managed to snap a picture from the front of the train of the tracks ahead while the train was on the tracks on the right-hand side.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    @jellyfishhunter @ajsadauskas@pixelfed.social It's the front.If there's an emergency in a tunnel and the train has come to a complete stop, then passengers can escape through the front window instead of exiting through a side door. And there's various types of emergencies (fire, derailment, explosion) where it's likely to be safer for passengers near the ends of the train to exit through the front or rear window, rather than try to exit through a side door and potentially walk past a safety hazard.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    They should have some dummy controls set up so you can pretend to be the train driver if you want.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    I did not know that hashtags where a thing on lemmy intresting

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    I think that's because a twitter-like thing communicates with Lemmy.

    Someone more knowledgeable on the matter than i could offer more precision.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    @Danquebec @wezzzy The original post is on Pixelfed here: pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/Pixelfed (basically a better Instagram on the Fediverse) supports people following hashtags, so I added some on.When you add the handle of a Lemmy group ( @fuckcars ) to a Pixelfed post, that post is added to the Lemmy group. In this case I did it, because photos from a new metro line in Southwest Sydney is likely to be of interest to at least some urbanist/anti-car folks in other cities on Lemmy.

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