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Why are they allowing enough distance for the train to stop without hitting the vehicle in front of it? We don't normally do that on interstate highways. If we
by burfog 8y ago
Why are they allowing enough distance for the train to stop without hitting the vehicle in front of it? We don't normally do that on interstate highways. If we did do that, capacity would be greatly reduced.
I think I found the problem. :-)
- tialaramex 8y agoCorrect, car drivers do behave in unsafe ways. Humans greatly value freedom of choice, and once given it will almost invariably choose badly and then be sad. We aren't allowed to make the same bad choices on their behalf - users will rebel if you propose that it's OK for a few New York subway trains to crash each day. This isn't about railways per se. Individuals with freedom of choice on the railway will make bad decisions too. Track workers for example are routinely complicit in the unsafe practices that cause them to die, if we told them "take this dangerous shortcut" we'd be demons, but since they choose for themselves to take the shortcut against instructions we can only wring our hands.