(December 19, 2017 at 10:27 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Gonna be really pissed if this is cell phone related.
I really don't care even if it was.
When you let big corporations write all our laws for us, you end up with the same damned thing Nader fought with cars and how crappy they were back in the 70s and prior.
Even with cars today, unless we get to driverless cars, putting a computer screen on the dash is just as distracting as a cell phone.
Trains, like school buses DONT have seat belts, that alone could go a long way to reduce deaths. Many cars now have auto break to avoid rear ending someone. I don't see why the rails cant move to having communication technology that relegates the speed of the train regardless of the error of the operator.
This is really no different than how long it took oil to remove lead from gas. If you let big corporations always do whatever they want, they will drag their feet until a disaster pushes enough people to say enough.
