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BRAKELESS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 @ 8:00PM

Brakeless is a cautionary tale of what happens when punctuality, protocol, and efficiency are taken to the extreme.

On Monday, April 25th 2005, a West Japan Railway (West JR) commuter train crashed into an apartment building and killed 107 people when a driver tried to catch up with an 80-second delay. Just what pressures made the driver risk so much for such a minimal delay? Was this accident simply the result of human or mechanical failure, or the failure of society in a larger sense?

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