Into the memory hole with this one.
The BNSF often had to disable the PTC to get the trains to move.
So it is on the track and not on the train? That’s interesting.
so its the machines that caused this accident...not the well paid engineer sitting there and controlling the actual train...
In Japan, they use Automatic Train Stop (ATS) sensors on the track to determine if the train is travelling too fast or overran a red signal to automatically slow down or stop the train. I’m surprised they didn’t implement this first before installing the much more complicated Positive Train Control (PTC) system.
You know, it would probably be helpful to have a person at the front of the train to control it. Just like they did back in the 1800s. I think they called them Engineers.
50,000+ trains passed that same curve without a hint of a problem, yet this one is going over TWICE the allowed speed.
Answer that question, and you have the answer to the problem.
Rush says the FCC was too busy messing with Obama’s pet project of “ net neutrality” to assign bandwidth to the Amtrack safety system, so it is Obama’s latest failure...with another 8 bodies on his “ Americans Killed” list.
Wake up, Fox News, and report this!
Just a little bureaucratic snafu. Move along, folks.
Watch McConnell spend billions on new crap.
Don't utilize new crap.
Blame Republicans for niggardliness.
Watch McConnell spend billions on new crap.
It was probably installed, tested and verified to work. Then turned of because workplace rules require some union specialist to put his finger on the switch and flip it.
The real question is why are trains even designed to go over the speed limit in the first place.
Sounds like the FCC was too busy figuring out a way to seize control of the internet to issue an approval for a critical safety system.
Where all the federal warning labels installed?
That is Government for you.
Republicans turned it off.
There can be no other explanation.
More evidence of government competence. No one will be fired (can’t fire the gay engineer; can’t fire the people who did not turn on the automatic speed control) and the taxpayers will foot the payouts and damages.
Civil immunity for government incompetence and negligence needs to be done away with. Make the .gov individual personally liable for all damages, not the innocent taxpayer. For any liability insurance, it comes out of the .gov salary.