Re:Train burglaries in LA
by dkdbejwi383 on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:24AM
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That sounds like it could be quite error prone. If it's electronic, what about power failures? If mechanical, sounds like lots of intricate machined parts which will wear down over time.
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Time locks have been around for more than 100 years, I'm pretty confident that if something like this was desired by the powers that be, it would have been implemented. What I'm assuming is stopping it aren't the engineering challenges, but the fact that currently it's cheaper to let the thefts happen than it is to mitigate them.
Re:Train burglaries in LA
by dkdbejwi383 on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:44AM
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I wonder what the cost of engineering secure containers would be vs. addressing the societal problems in the USA that lead to situations like this would be.