Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Joerg Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Muppets Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:01:35 -0800 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net oz90ypbkTh3SW1jRujFDjQBZISkRxnm9JQn8GY9ioCRW84z0he Cancel-Lock: sha1:uRwxMgZFomn0QUG17NnIFRpjVi0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:488811 On 2017-12-19 04:00, bitrex wrote: > > > $800 million spent on the project you'd think they could spend a few > bucks on a crew that knew how to slow down going around a curve. > The really sad news is that the technology to avoid this has been around and successfully used in Germany since before World War II. They call it Inductive Train Safeguarding or Indusi. That slows down and even brings trains to a full stop, overriding an offending operator. It is not rocket science. Yet we have all those so-called "licensed engineers" who are supposed to "safeguard the public" and blah-blah, then fail on the simplest and most obvious points. They should never have signed and stamped such "system" designs. Yet they did and that has killed people over and over again. [...] -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/