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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (856671)5/13/2015 10:30:43 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1575994
 
There's a fix for fast engineers.
See: "There's a fix for reckless engineers."

Message 30066671

"If it wasn't for the Koch Brothers, 200 people wouldn't have been injured and 5 people wouldn't have lost their lives."

It's entirely possible. How do they sleep at night? From the link,

At the time, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), noted that a Union Pacific freight train had recently collided head on with a Metrolink commuter train in Chatsworth, CA, killing 25 and injuring 135. The driver, who was reportedly texting, failed to follow a stop signal — an error that could have been rectified by PTC. “While I would have preferred that the Federal Railroad Safety Improvement Act mandate positive train control in high risk areas by 2012, I am pleased this bill takes a step in the right direction,” she noted. The technology might also have prevented a 2013 train crash in Spain in which scores of passengers were killed after a driver took a curve at double the speed limit.

Rather than provide the necessary funding to allow Amtrak to meet the rapidly approaching mandate, the GOP-controlled U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines to cut about a fifth of Amtrak’s annual federal funds.
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