Yeah assuming you know what you're talking about I'd love to hear more about this. I just assumed that rail cars have some of the most automated travel mechanisms given the simplicity of rail-travel compared to on highway, sea or air.
I don't think you are qualified to say if he is crazy or not. Hopefully Hodj will let us know though.
The feds don't give away money for free, that's not how it ever works. The Congress used the interstates to hobble the States, and the States stole from the interstates. I'm sure you'd have to read the fine print as to why States are REALLY saying thanks but no thanks.
Fair enough. Probably shouldn't have worded that the way I did. It just seems like something we aren't making forward progress on even though it would be valuable. We have this gigantic country with all this empty space, you'd think trains would be rather advanced and popular. In fact, the country was kind of built on them in some ways and then we all bought a car and ignored them. Like some kind of grand plan or conspiracy...
Italy's got you covered bro:http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...bus-crash.html
An article I read indicated that in Spain when the train was traveling on high-speed only tracks it would be largely automated. But on the lower speed, mixed tracks where other slower passenger trains and cargo trains would run, it would be controlled by the driver. I would imagine it's difficult to fully automate those systems, given their complexity. Rail systems in Europe are anything but simple, as Tuco claimed.Lithose_sl said:
I would be interested in learning about what complexities are managed by onboard human operators of trains during normal operation.
I meant the system as a whole. Everything from slow local transit to high speed transcontinental passenger trains to freight run on the same lines. It's not "simple" to automate that entire system. I'm sure this incident will be a big motivator to do more in that regard, certainly.
