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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by mhandley on Saturday August 10, 2019 @02:09PM (#20663617)
Old-style railway crossings often included gates that closed across the tracks to prevent this happening. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3VF4hWvjC3g/maxresdefault.jpg

Is it really that hard for the railways to fix this problem with better modern automated gates?

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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by Svip on Saturday August 10, 2019 @02:11PM (#20663631)
I've only seen those kinds of gates in Europe. Mind, I have not seen all US railway crossings, but I have seen a few, and none of them had gates like that. Plus, I think there is too little money in the railway network's budget to implement those gates, so asking navigation apps to do it for them is the cheap option.
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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by aaronmgdr on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:35PM (#20664072)
Most of the ones I have seen have gates

(I'm in the US)

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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety by kd5bjo on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:52PM (#20664154)
US rail crossing gates tend to move vertically, and there’s never a barrier that crosses the tracks, only the road. Sometimes, they only block the road in the direction of travel which leaves an easy path for drivers to go around the gates if they’re feeling impatient.
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