The official tumblr of amtrak — Cars are way more dangerous than trains, bikes and...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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[A two axis graph, with the X axis labelled "dangerous" and the Y axis labelled "convenient for travel". On middle to high convience and low danger is the Zone of Practicality with trains, car,s airlingers, scooters, bicycles, boats, and walking. Equivalent convience and danger is the Zone of Specialty and Recreational Vehicles, with (in increasing convience/danger) bumper cars, unicycles, sleds,skis, rollerblades, skateboards, go karts, light aircraft, helicopters, and motorcycles. Hot Air Balloons are alone on high danger and low convenience, and labelled with a series of question marks.]  Caption: Hot Air Balloons are the optimal mode of transportation, if your optimization algorithm has a sign error.ALT

My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.

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Cars are way more dangerous than trains, bikes and walking