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>If I can get pulled over for having a busted tail light, a train full of toxic chemicals should get stopped for being on fire. What makes you think this isn’t

>If I can get pulled over for having a busted tail light, a train full of toxic chemicals should get stopped for being on fire. What makes you think this isn’t what normally happens? Trains aren’t just cruising around constantly on fire.

chaps 4y ago
I think you deeply underestimate how many derailments happen each year in the US https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/how-often-do-trains-derail-more-than-you-think/ https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/how-often-do-trains-dera...
- kortilla 4y ago
  If you think “derailment” means “on fire”, we have bigger issues.
  - chaps 4y ago
    You've missed the forest for the trees, friend.
    - kortilla 4y ago
      You think there is a forest because you don’t understand what a derailment is. The vast majority of them are benign. They rarely result in cars even tipping over, let alone spilling.
causi 4y ago
Trains aren’t just cruising around constantly on fire. If they were, would you know? I wouldn't.
- kortilla 4y ago
  Yes, there is quite an enthusiastic crowd of people making videos of trains. A video of a train on fire just cruising along is gold and there aren’t that many. Unless you are proposing a conspiracy where the train companies run them on fire only in areas with no people and then shut the fire off as they approach towns/cities/crossings.
toomuchtodo 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34784255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34784255