Fox is reporting rumors that the engineer was “texting” on his cell phone.....the proof will be there if he was.
> Fox is reporting rumors that the engineer was “texting” on
> his cell phone.....the proof will be there if he was.
There were rumors of that in the recent trolley crash
outside Boston, later proven false.
Let the investigatory process work.
That said, considering what’s going to be spent
compensating victims and survivors, they probably
could have upgraded the system to auto-stop trains
on red signals unless overridden by the operator ...
... and had money left over.
Relying on a single human to observe and react to
signal lights is just so 20th century, when differential
GPS can tell where each train is, and on which track
in double-track blocks (this was apparently single-track,
which is even easier to manage with GPS).