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If there's one thing we should know from the computer world, it is that doing something frequently makes it easier to automate.
by o11c 1y ago
If there's one thing we should know from the computer world, it is that doing something frequently makes it easier to automate.
- TylerE 1y agoThe problem is that they run close enough together that any failures rapidly cascade until suddenly your whole network is a half hour late as it grinds to a halt...
- IAmBroom 1y agoAny such failures are potentially massively fatal, and grinding to a halt is exactly what we want the trains to do. All that means is that you design the system very robustly. And, of course, trains fail-to-safe. Cut a brake line? Train can't release its brakes. Signal out? Conductor can only move in GoA0 (manual), at reduced speeds, until the next signal is reached (and readable). Etc.