Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:34 PM

AMTRAK crashes. Why not automated?

Human error, always. We have driverless cars, why not trains? Switching systems? Seems we could avoid a lot of problems by automating trains.

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AMTRAK crashes. Why not automated? (Original post)	ghostsinthemachine	Feb 2018	OP
$	Agschmid	Feb 2018	#1
Private freight companies own most of the tracks	missingm	Feb 2018	#2
Shut Up! Trump's America wants more profits and less regulation,	procon	Feb 2018	#3

Response to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)

Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:36 PM

Agschmid (28,749 posts)

1. $

We spend next to nothing on public infrastructure.

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Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:39 PM

missingm (56 posts)

2. Private freight companies own most of the tracks

Private companies own and manage most of the tracks. Contrary to Republican beliefs, private companies don't naturally consider safety a priority.

If there is one thing that probably should be nationalized, it is all of the right of ways along railroad tracks.

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Mon Feb 5, 2018, 02:54 PM

procon (15,805 posts)

3. Shut Up! Trump's America wants more profits and less regulation,

no innovation and no modernization because Republican are not interested being competitive with any other industrialized country in the 21st century. After all, they have plenty of contraptions designed for the 18th century that still rely on "big beautiful coal".

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