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Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia
An anonymous reader writes: An Amtrak train has derailed in Philadelphia, injuring at least 50 of the roughly 240 people on board. The train was on its way from Washington D.C. to New York City when it derailed around 9:20pm local time. Former congressman Patrick Murphy, who was aboard the train, said, "It wobbled at first and then went off the tracks. There were some pretty banged-up people. One guy next to me was passed out. We kicked out the window in the top of the train car and helped get everyone out."
Any word on whether or not America will ever upgrade (and repair) it's rail lines?
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Im sure its a mixture between driver error and system issues
The majority of derailments are due to track problems or striking vehicles at grade crossings, and nothing to do with the driver or the train. How is it that you are so sure?
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The world is so small nowadays.
Why is this on Slashdot...!?
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all under amtrak control
Perhaps you are thinking of Metro North which is most decidedly not the same as Amtrak?
Perhaps you are thinking of the crash involving undiagnosed sleep apnea (Metro North did not screen its employees for sleep apnea as NHTSA recommends for all operators). They changed his shift unexpectedly, his sleep apnea prevented him from sleeping well and he nodded off. It was 100% preventable if Metro North had followed the guidelines.
Perhaps you are thinking of the derailment and death on Metro North when a train plowed into a work crew. Again no fault to the train or the crew, but a management failure to enforce basic rules of safety.
Oh and you really think that amtrak sets its prices like that? woof!
because here on slashdot we might actually have an interesting discussion about why trains fall off the tracks, the merits of infrastructure investment, why people prefer different forms of transpotation, etc.
believe it or not some people come here for the comments
thank you, you are correct. it seems i mixed metro north train derailment in with amtrak. Thank you for the correction
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Nobody ever said that we should upgrade every single mile of railroad in this country and nobody ever said that we should offer high speed rail service to rural Wyoming, but that won't stop people from telling us why it's hopeless to upgrade our rail system.
There should be a systemd story here every day. The impact systemd is having on the Linux community, and the open source community, is without precedent. It's the kind of thing that should be getting constant coverage here at Slashdot, yet we hear almost nothing about it.
Systemd is revolutionizing (and not for the better) how each and every major Linux distro fits together. Not only is there the technical aspect to it, but systemd is dramatically changing how contemporary Linux distro projects are organized.
I mean, we're seeing Debian, one of the largest and most stable of all of the Linux distributions for around two decades, being absolutely destroyed, technologically and socially, by systemd.
Comparatively, systemd is a much bigger issue than SCO ever was. Systemd is much more harmful to Linux and open source than Microsoft ever was. Yet for something that's having such an impact on Linux, we're hearing next to nothing about it here at Slashdot. Systemd should be getting coverage above and beyond the coverage that SCO and Microsoft got in the past.
While systemd, which is indisputably the most news-worthy thing happening to the Linux community, goes almost unreported, Slashdot still manages to report on minor local incidents like this one, as well as so-called "social justice" issues.
Slashdot should do the right thing and focus on systemd. It's an issue that we need to look at, and we need to discuss. And we need this to be done right away.
How is a story about the most automated vehicle class on the planet, with some of the most powerful mobile engines not be of interest to people who like technology? Nerds like trains.
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In other news, the passengers were placed on buses to complete their trips. They arrived a day ahead of schedule.
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Or just a mistake, which he acknowledged and thanked you for correcting. Twice.
And you guys were doing so well heading towards getting a "Reasonable Discussion on the Internet" medal, too.