After what happened in Japan in 2005 at the Amagasaki train crash west of Osaka that killed over 100 people due to excessive speed approaching a sharp curve, the West Japan Railway Company aggressively installed a lot more Automatic Train Stop (ATS) warning systems on the track. Maybe it’s time for the railroads on the Northeast Corridor to install ATS at every critical point on the track to prevent overspeeding, which may have caused this accident.
It ought to be a lot simpler to engineer driverless trains than it is to do driverless cars or trucks that are currently all the rage.