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Originally Posted by MattyC
Is the "cuddling" not unavoidable, regardless of the seat scheme? You could have the ones that face each other like the oldies, you still have to sit beside someone, and have the added bonus of being knee-knee with a stranger while trying to avoid eye-contact.
Outside of a bunch of individual fold down seats that are 6 inches apart, or no seats at all, there really aren't any other options.
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Burninator outlined my thoughts pretty well. At least in versions 1 and 2 I only ever have 1 person directly beside me, and even then it's rare that they're touching me. I'm a short guy, so I almost never run into the leg problem on V1 models. On V3 trains sitting down means I have a person on either side
pressing against me. In summer it's skin-on-skin action and in winter there's half the space available due to giant coats. I totally appreciate that not everybody feels this way, but I find it incredibly uncomfortable and it gives me a slight anxiety (nothing serious, I just actively avoid it). The outside seats that fold down are the absolute best as there's room to hang off the side slightly.
I would like to emphasize that my comfort is not the most important thing here. Obviously moving the most number of bodies is, and the v3 trains do that well. I fully admit my preference of the v1 and v2 models is a bit silly.