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Noel, you are attributing too much intelligence to these things, they simply aren't that bright. The current RCOs do some very simple things, if contact is lost they just set the brakes they don't know which end the cars are on or even how many cars they have, if there is air in the cars or not. I know when you are making a shove on a cut of cars with air only in the head twenty or thirty cars that I had better get the slack out before I put the cars in emergency. The computer just dumps the air throwing off the guy riding on the end (that computer doesn't even know exists) or tearing a knuckle out. I had to go out and relieve an RCO because they tried to pump up the air in a whole train, when it hadn't reached what it considered the right amount of air in the amount of time it allowed it put itself in emergency and started all over again. Say there is a washout and the rail is dangling over the newly formed canyon, the washout has been discovered and a person tries to flag down the train to make it stop, will the computer recognize the danger to the community and stop? Will the computer look back and see a hot bearing or the car that is on the ground bouncing along? Will it notice the handbrake twenty five cars back? Will it be able to alter it's train handling because of a problem in the train. Computers are not very flexible!
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