• Deadly Amtrak wreck in Philadelphia blamed on distracted engineer

    From a425couple@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 17 14:08:38 2016
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    Deadly Amtrak wreck in Philadelphia blamed on distracted engineer

    http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2016/05/deadly_amtrak_wreck_in_philade.html

    "The speeding Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, most likely ran off the rails because the engineer was
    distracted by word of a nearby commuter train getting hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded Tuesday.
    The National Transportation Safety Board also put some of the blame on the railroad industry's decades-long delay in installing Positive Train Control, equipment that can automatically slow trains that are going over the speed limit.
    Engineer Brandon Bostian was apparently so focused on the rock-throwing incident he heard about over the radio that he lost track of where he was
    and accelerated full-throttle to 106 mph as his train went into a sharp
    curve with a 50 mph limit, investigators said at an NTSB hearing convened to pinpoint the cause of the May 12, 2005, tragedy."
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    What bunkum!!
    I have heard the nationwide train speed limit is NEVER
    over 80 mph. It takes a lot of time & energy to get to 106 MPH!!
    Trying to turn this pure gross negligence into a sales job
    for PTC is like trying to turn every DUI death into an
    argument for self driving cars.

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