You will recall that the SPV had driver and passengers facing backwards with a front facing camera used to steer it!
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You will recall that the SPV had driver and passengers facing backwards with a front facing camera used to steer it!
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I use the train quite a lot and never have a problem with facing backwards. Never really been bothered by travel sickness though. I suppose if you are prone to it then it wouldn't help matters.
IIRC the reason they don't bother on planes is because in the event of a crash it would not add enough extra safety to actually make any difference to the outcome.
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Facing backwards per se isn't a problem. It's facing backwards with a good view of an ever-retreating world that causes the issues.
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Travel sickness isn't totally caused by facing backwards as people are prone to it facing forward too, it's to do with your eye movement, if you look out the side window and your eye tracks everything moving sideways they flick from side to side thereby causing motion sickness. My mate used to get it just watching the screen when I was playing 2st person shooters like Doom or Battlefield.
Sitting backwards in an aircraft won't cause issues except during takeoff and landing as that will be the only time you'll see the ground moving fast and only at a window seat.
Infant seats are rear facing to absorb the impact by forcing their bodies back into the seat and not by facing forward and their body bring flung against the restraints resulting in major organ damage and the biggest killer in front impact, torn aorta or mesentery, also they'd break their neck. So rear facing helps prevent that.
People only sit in rear facing train seats when there's no other choice 😉
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Referring to plane crashes a mate of mine asked his mate ( who was terrified of flying ) if he knew why you had to put your head down when adopting the brace position, no be replied, my mate told him it was to make sure you died quickly when your spine was rammed into your brain lol
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Probably true. When suicidal pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew that airliner into a mountain a couple of years ago at nearly 500 mph, the remains of those poor passengers were burger sized bits.
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On a train, facing backwards presents another problem. Being killed by the person opposite being catapaulted into you in a crash.
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That's the thing I don't like about flying, it's all or nothing. You either arrive completely intact and healthy or you don't arrive at all. At least with all the other forms of travel there is a chance of surviving a major disaster. Even if you are badly hurt you are still alive and will pick up major compo.
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Here's what happens when a plane hits something at 500mph. Being tightly belted into your seat seems rather superfluous really!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZjhxuhTmGk
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