Comment by knottn
1 day ago
So it’s clearly an industry wide problem then. The more I read the more thankful I am California can’t build high speed rail.
1 day ago
So it’s clearly an industry wide problem then. The more I read the more thankful I am California can’t build high speed rail.
Except that car vs. rail deaths per 100 million person km is 0.7 vs. 0.035 and per 100 million person hours 25 vs. 2 (https://etsc.eu/transport-safety-performance-in-the-eu-a-sta... or https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...). It's more of an human wide problem, rather than industry wide problem. If you want to be safe, you need stay at home, but that's also not going to be actually safe.
The point of this discussion is that people blame the train driver or say "use self-driving", when that is not going to solve the problem, because that's not where the error is. The error is not there, *because* for rail making errors operating the train is not going to cause an accident (most of the time), which is not the case for cars.