I was watching the news here in the UK and saw clips of the train in the US
that travelled for around 70 miles without a driver. How did it start
without a driver? Did he forget to put the train into park and went for a
cup of coffee?? It seems a bit strange to me.

I dont know a great deal about safety of trains in the US but there have
been some very serious and fatal train crashes here in the UK - the latest
of which a car ended up travelling down a embankment before a bridge and
getting stuck on the line. The car was hit by a a train which was then hit
by another.

I just wondered if train safety(or lack of it) was a global problem and not
just specific to this country.

Thanks

Paul Thompson
Spark Response
www.sparkresponse.com



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