Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety
by Freak_NL on Saturday August 10, 2019 @02:10PM
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What makes this primarily a US thing though? One would imagine that even if you manage to turn onto a railroad track accidentally, wouldn't driving on it immediately tell you that you left the comparatively smooth road surface?
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Re:Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety
by Svip on Saturday August 10, 2019 @02:15PM
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I am only speculating, but I think in Europe at least, there is a tendency to avoid railway crossings with rails that run parallel to another road. And if that cannot be avoided, the trains are required to run very slowly along those tracks. Part of the problem here is that the trains are unable to stop in time, because these are high speed tracks.