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U.S. finally has a system to prevent deadly rail accidents (and allow automation). It took 50 years (more or less).
Author: OLD NEW AGAIN
Date: 01-02-2021 - 08:10
After Democrats regained a majority in 2006, the House passed a bill to mandate positive train control. Opposition from the industry kept the bill bottled up in the Senate.
Other studies showed that the lives saved — valued at just under $10 million per life, the current government standard — would not offset the cost.
“Everything inside the railcar except for the steel frames of the seats and me continued north westerly at 42 mph while the car, the frames and I were going in the other direction,” he wrote a few months after the accident. Passengers smashed into tables and walls. The fire extinguisher, kept in a small compartment on the wall, “emerged as a bullet.”
"We put it in as a safety system,” said Matthews, the BNSF official.
“But what it’s given us is some fundamental building blocks that we can use going forward” to automate operations.
In the future, “computers will drive the train,” said Rush, much as autopilots now largely fly commercial jets.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-02/nationwide-positive-train-control-safety-system
Other studies showed that the lives saved — valued at just under $10 million per life, the current government standard — would not offset the cost.
“Everything inside the railcar except for the steel frames of the seats and me continued north westerly at 42 mph while the car, the frames and I were going in the other direction,” he wrote a few months after the accident. Passengers smashed into tables and walls. The fire extinguisher, kept in a small compartment on the wall, “emerged as a bullet.”
"We put it in as a safety system,” said Matthews, the BNSF official.
“But what it’s given us is some fundamental building blocks that we can use going forward” to automate operations.
In the future, “computers will drive the train,” said Rush, much as autopilots now largely fly commercial jets.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-02/nationwide-positive-train-control-safety-system
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 U.S. finally has a system to prevent deadly rail accidents (and allow automation). It took 50 years (more or less). |
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Guest | 01-02-2021 - 18:37 |