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Re:Spain train crash: What we know after two trains crashed ... by 1718627440 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:06PM (#50296850)
My reading indicates, that "Even X could have prevented this." means that X is able to solve the issue on it's own. Otherwise X would in fact not prevent it.

- I don't think X would actually work, without actually eventually recreating part of the current railway control system, and the current rail control system alone already works better.

- I don't think another less reliable more costly safety system helps, when the current one already stated that there is a problem, and it was ignored.

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Re:Spain train crash: What we know after two trains crashed ... by Pragmata on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:58AM (#50300971)
>My reading indicates, that "Even X could have prevented this." means that X is able to solve the issue on it's own. Otherwise X would in fact not prevent it.

X on its own would have solved this particular crash, yes.

X + existing setup would solve this crash + all the other crashed the existing setup solves.

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