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Following Spain's deadly high-speed train crash, Delano D'Souza is joined by Francisco Badea, Director of FEM Expert Engineering, Railway Structural & PRM Certi…
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Trains should have transponders like planes
so there is something called PTC ie... Positive Train Control <br><br> There has never been a documented fatal rail accident caused by a failure or malfunction of an active Positive Train Control (PTC) system.<br><br>While minor software glitches, server dropouts, or communication gaps can force trains to temporarily drop into a slower, manual "fallback mode", the system is fundamentally built on fail-safe logic—meaning if it loses power or encounters an error, it defaults to stopping or slowing the train safely<br><br>is the loss of 68 folks and millions of dollars or in your case Euros worth finally investing in modern Railway safety Systems???<br><br>This all would have been avoided with PTC in active usage<br><br>Time to come fully into the 21st century folks<br><br>PTC wass mandated by Congress and has been in use in the USA
Nothing about the go ahead message manual override without including the protocol of moving at a reduced speed of 40 mph that if the train was at that speed the driver would have been able to brake and slow down to avoid the collision when he made visual contact? Those safety protocols in the control centre for this situation of moving at a reduced speed are already in place so why was no message to move at reduced speed given to the driver after the manual override? Of course human error or outright negligence of protocols came into play.
Isn’t it obvious that someone overrode failsafe mechanisms? It’s definitely human error.
Possibly the most uninformative expert I’ve ever listened to.
Presuming the company cut corners. Also, driving hiring standards likely lacking. To save money and maybe DEI.
I keep hearing that this accident was impossible. Nobody's fault because it was impossible. It will end up being one, two or three people in the control room at fault.
What protocol allowed the control center to override safety measures? Is it the one called "money is time""?
Maybe third world countries shouldn't be allowed to have high speed rail.
If the drivers used Waze it wouldn't have happened.
Trains were much safer in the 1800s. 🚂
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