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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Chris_S68 I haven't read a more asinine comment for some time. [/quote] I'm glad it was as good for you as it was for me... [:I] Comparing the security of an ICBM launch silo to train safety seemed equally absurd to me as well, so I just picked up the ball and ran with it. I believe that the 'public safety' aspect of this discussion is the weakest argument of all, and I'll tell you why . Read these boards about collisions long enough and you will begin to see a theme. It's never the engineers fault, ther is never "anything I could do" except throw the trian into emergency, and plow on through the fool/idiot/moron who DARED venture out on the tracks. The call for prevention is always for "louder horns", or "better, more restrictive crossing gates", or taxpayer funded grade seperations...etc etc because avoidance is ALWAYS beyond the control of the poor poor engineer, because "there is only so much one can do with a 10000 ton freight moving 45 mph"...and there you have the poor engineer, scarred for life with the vision of the looks of horror on the faces of the people just before he (unavoidably, of course) smashed them to pulp ... and if you read people here, it's ALWAYS the victims fault for not realizing that the engineer has no control... so lets listen to that message. If the belly aching is always a call for better horns, better crossing gates, better grade seperations etc etc then the only solution is for MECHANICAL enhancements. If the engineers themselves are claiming that the "only solution" to safety issues are mechanical...then why begrudge the railroads for listening, and going one step further? Afterall, it's such a shame to have these human engineers scarred for life by the morons who wander out in front of them. Fully automated railroads would solve that "problem" once and for all.
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