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Regardless of how much an individual is to blame or not, fail-safe controls are a proper part of engineering practice, for two fundamental reasons: unknown unkn
by mkempe 9y ago
Regardless of how much an individual is to blame or not, fail-safe controls are a proper part of engineering practice, for two fundamental reasons: unknown unknowns, and human fallibility.
- nanis 9y agoThe root cause is an engineer who drives the train at almost three times the speed limit --- not lack of PTC. The answer is to hold engineers accountable when they recklessly kill people. Do you think these same engineers who flaunt speed limits now will be more or less likely to do dangerous things when there PTC? Does having PTC mean absolutely no chance of an accident when an engineer behaves recklessly?