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Re: PTC-preventable? was Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Wed Dec 4 10:22:19 2013, in response to Re: PTC-preventable? was Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Dec 4 04:39:21 2013. PTC is built by humans but set up to fail so that the train stops. The fact of the matter is that humans fail, and without PTC, an accident like Chatsworth or this can and will happen. Hopefully there isn't one before the 2015 deadline, or if there is, it isn't fatal. If PTC had been installed on MN in 2000 alongside Amtrak's installation, those four people would be alive today. Given that we are soon to have driverless cars, and airplanes can already land themselves, it seems that trains should be the low hanging fruit for taking human error out of the safety equation, since the technology already exists to do so. |
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