Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute

Re:Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroyi... by ShorsHammer on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:33AM (#19989398)

Find it strange that planes don't use them more often. I ended up flying BA business once and half their seats are backwards. It was quite novel, takeoff felt a bit weird but besides that no difference.

Went researching it after the flight and apparently reverse seats are far safer for injuries, especially neck and torso related.

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Re:Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroyi... by cududa on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:41AM (#19989433)

Because motion sickness. I can absolutely never sit backwards even on a train, and plane take offs make me queezy as it is. I suspect there are people with much worse motion sickness issues

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Re:Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroyi... by jessaustin on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:43AM (#19992222)

All air passengers are less safe, just so some people can be more comfortable? That is not optimal.

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Re:Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroyi... by cududa on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:08AM (#19998405)

I would literally vomit everywhere if forced into such a configuration. At that point it becomes everyone’s problem.

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Re:Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroyi... by ThrustVectoring on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:25PM (#19993134)

Air travel is safe enough as it is.

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Re:Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroyi... by chrisseaton on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:26AM (#19990322)

Military passenger planes often have the seats facing aft. Even when they're the same model with the same chairs as a commercial airliner, they just install them facing aft.

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