https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-train-derailment-chemical-spill-evacuations-rockcastle-county-livingston/

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  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    What makes these worse is knowing there are more advanced brake systems that are mandated in Europe but we don’t have them here bc of regulatory capture

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      How would they have helped?

      I'm genuinely asking. Brakes are mechanically a solved problem basically. Is it a maintenance thing?

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        Electronic controls basically

        https://apnews.com/article/2e91c7211b4947de8837ebeda53080b9

        https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-trains-amtrak-safer-railways/

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          The wiki article says it's about signaling, that I understand, is that what was meant by advanced brake systems? I'm far from a train nerd

          • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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            7 months ago

            Yeah there’s that system that I believe automatically slows trains down if they’re exceeding the safe speed of the track and then there’s the electronic braking which applies all the brakes at the same time