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I support any protest that blocks car traffic. The fact that the protesters are protesting something important is a nice bonus.
One more reason why trains are superior than any other form of commute.
My car is equally capable of rolling over protestors. So, there's not much a difference on this front.
Strictly technically speaking, a F59PH engine unit of a train is about 265 000 lbs whereas an F-150 pickup truck averages around 5 000 lbs. In a train you might hear but you definitely won't feel running over protestors from the cab, whereas in a car you will be rocked as if you were going over speed bumps. As such there is a little bit of difference in capability there.
The advantage in a car or truck of course is you have more choice of where to run over protestors. If you far enough away from a pair of parallel steel rails you can rest assured as a protestor that a train won't show up and run you over. Unless you're in this movie.
If the objective was to run over protestors, rumble feedback might be a positive instead of a negative.
That is a good point.