More on the UK rail crash

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 8 16:27:55 PDT 1999


Carl Remick wrote:


>It is called an automatic train protection (ATP) system. If a
>careless driver jumps a red light, the brakes come on and the train
>halts. It is in use in many American trains

It's even in the NYC subway, which hardly sets a technological standard in anything except maybe graffiti-proofing.

Doug



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