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Longer freight trains have higher risk of derailment
- beretguy 2y ago> the relationship between train length and risk of derailment is not yet well understood. Is somebody trying to justify their researcher job? Sounds like common sense to me. It would be more beneficial to research probably of derailment based on train length and finding optimal balance between length of train and probability of accident.
- h2odragon 2y agothere's more likely to be an accident among a pool of 10 cars, than there is in a pool of 1 car. Link them all together so that any car's accident becomes all cars accident; and the conclusion seems to follow as a mathematical necessity.