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- technology@lemmit.online
Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems::The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.
I’m surprised it isn’t already automated, you’d think it’d save money
Just not fixing things saves even more money.
And then when it starts to cost money the government gives it to them.
It’s kind of automated: when the locomotive spots a problem, it rolls over. Then people come along to fix it.
Its there,but it only monitors breakage. Warpage is much harder to detect without actually sending someone down there after every train.