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Like how they ran into each other? LOLI have an idea. Compare the quality of their high speed trains with those built in the USA.
https://www.railjournal.com/passeng...port-blames-design-flaws-and-poor-management/
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Oh yes, like we see with everything, people are more than willing to roll the dice on junk and then complain after the fact when it demonstrates that it was in fact junk.
Or buy something expensive and claim it is great when it in fact is not. They don't wanna look dumb.
Our President at our SEMI company was a huge car guy. Regarding one of his over-$100K cars, he told me, "Worst car I ever owned." His candor was rare indeed. I won't bother to mention the make and model...
Yes, that was 15 years ago. There were 700 injuries on Amtrak in 15 years, and those were at a hokey poke speed.
For sure, and buying the junk takes sales away from the competition in the process. A lot of people lie about their bad purchases too, which can boost sales for junk. A lot of people don't like to admit they made a mistake, they'll lie instead.
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Sure, and this single incident killed 40 and injured 142. They also just had a train run over and kill 11 workers in December, and it wasn't a high speed train.
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Yes, part of the shift from repair to replace, this is part of "consumer whoreism" that I ranted about a few years back, becoming slaves to the model, which requires perpetual consumption to function. Products were made difficult or impossible to repair, and very expensive to attempt, encouraging replacement, and driving up consumption, while quality took a hit, in large part due to outsourcing and declining QC.
What's crazy based on technology in the US it's almost impossible to have a train collision at speed with centralized traffic control and positive train control. PTC will place a train into emergency braking before it'll run a light in CTC. I've dealt with a head on train coliision about 5 years ago, but it was in dark territory(no CTC or PTC) and it was in yard limits so no authority was violated for both of those trains to be there. That's becoming more and more of a rarity since that's really only switch operations that will end up in that situation and those likely will happen under 20mph. The one I helped clean up made contact at 10mph. It was still a lot of damage.
Any recent Amtrak accident has either been track caused or a grade crossing incident with vehicles. Heavy farm equipment is a horrible thing to hit at speed. The railroad in general has had a lot of miss steps, but due to technology it's safer than it has ever been. Now if we could just get them to actually care and do something about crew rest and readiness.
I wonder what people would say about base model Chinese EV that had a glass sun roof but inside the car you couldnt see it because they installed a ceiling liner over it since a sunroof is an option and only available in a high trim level.
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