Posted on 05/14/2015 2:08:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Brandon Bostian, crashed Amtrak train's engineer, reportedly ranted about safety: 'I wish the railroads had been more proactive'
BY KELDY ORTIZ , DAREH GREGORIAN
The engineer who was behind the controls of an Amtrak train that derailed going around a curve at 100 mph is a lifelong train buff who's written online about the need for better rail safety, it was reported Thursday.
Brandon Bostian, writing on website Trainorders.com, criticized railroads for not installing "positive train control" systems to prevent crashes, the New York Times reported.
"At any point over the previous EIGHTY years the railroad could have voluntarily implemented some form of this technology," Bostian wrote in 2011, according to the Times. "I wish the railroads had been more proactive in adopting active signaling systems from the get-go."
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Perhaps, but most parents can’t supervise children every single minute. There will be times when everyone has to hire a babysitter, or get a relative/friend to watch them, send them to daycare, school, a church function, etc. We have to, at some point, trust other adults to act as our proxies and not abuse the children we trust them with.
Unfortunately, not all adults are trustworthy like that.
But, but he can’t remember a thing! (Ya he did it on purpose)
“So why isn’t Google working on a driverless train instead of the car thing?”
Google is a for-profit business. There is a demand for cars, but there is little demand for passenger trains, because they aren’t usually a viable business model.
Amtrak has been in the red, like the USPS, for years.
An engineer, with a blog, rants about train safety, and then, by chance/design/intent takes a 50 mph train around a 50 mph curve, at 100 mph, willfully, to make his point.
He should be tried for murder; for sabotage, since Amtrak is a federal operation.
Well, precious little Brandon showed them now, didn’t he?
It’s not the railroads, as this thing is currently set forth. In fact they just have to pay for it. Can you say unfunded mandate. No tax subsidy here.
Now, the folks who make the equipment will be in better shape, at the railroads’ expense.
Ideally, if the train is about to cross the speed limit, the system will automatically apply the train’s brakes (and maybe also disengage engine power).
As envisioned it is a grand scheme indeed. When under full PTC governance the train is running in a “Mother may I” mode. If the computer systems on board are not totally assured that track and train conditions are OK for the train to proceed, the train will brake.
The known dangers are so small — modern trains have such a good safety record — that this is known to be vast financial overkill.
Strictly my own opinion, but after his complaining like that and then doing something like this, it IS kind of hard to ignore... what will actually politically happen is anyone’s guess, we know how the people eat up the liberal news sound bites. The technology isn’t even close to being able to handle it by the end of this year. The USSR was not able to dictate a market, and the Congress can’t dictate the existence of a technology.
Amtrak runs on the actual money-making railroads’ tracks as a guest. Think BNSF, UPRR, etc. These railroads are being ordered to furnish the infrastructure.
God tried to warn us how he feels about sodomites, but nobody listens. And he is watching those who defends them very closely, I am sure.
God tried to warn us that every single one of us is bound to hell, we can’t just point at a fag and say since we are not that bad, we go to heaven.
You may be on to something but this murderer should haven't been going twice the speed limit.
I’d be curious what this train’s recorder says happened to make the train go so freaking fast. This guy puts the pedal to the metal and just laughs his fool head off?
I didn't say we go to heaven for sure. I am just saying that God hates practicing fags. Am I reading the Bible incorrectly?
BREAKING: Transportation safety board: Amtrak train sped up for about a minute before derailing at curve.
Well, everyone begins headed the same way, and it ain’t up.
The bible says God hates ALL sinners. It is only by His grace they aren’t already in hell. A peek at a mirror is helpful when addressing such topics.
We haven’t even established that this fellow was actually catching for the wrong team. A lot of liberals are for the weird idea du jour.
He had special treatment for fags though. Would you like to tell Him he was wrong in doing so right here and now?
Is there a thread on this?
“At any point over the previous EIGHTY years the railroad could have voluntarily implemented some form of this technology,”
That is a declaration of intent to make Amtrak INVOLUNTARILY implement the technology.
This guy needs to burn.
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