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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz I do not at all appreciate your inflection. I used that example to indicate that, in a position of lethal responsibility, two people are usually safer than one. Granted, it was not the best example I could of used... And your callous disregard for the feelings of engineers that have lived through fatalities is very disturbing, and I feel it disqualifies you from further opinions on the subject. [/quote] Look, lets be honest, OK, your attempt to pair the issues of train safety and thermonuclear husbandy was an attempt to make your appeal on an emotional level, as though every train should be accorded the same risk assessment as a weapon of mass destruction. Emotional appeals are great fun, I'll admit. It tends to motivate people at the irrational 'phobic' level, when it works. When it doesn't...well if you wanna paint me as the villain...then go ahead.it will change nothing.. Being the social beings that we are, I'm sure that the contemplation of long lonely solo shifts greatly disturb many who've grown accustomed to having a captive audience for their entire shift. But at the very core of this "protest" against progress, is another "John Henry" sentimental moment, and not much else. Someone else mentioned that a human "attendant" in the cab of otherwise fully robotic trains would be a likely out come. For a time, I'm sure that will be a TRANSITIONAL stage... Only time will tell.
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