• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Everybody gives the German rail flak for being late all the time and for 100 years-old technology and lacking personnel. But rail crashes are really rare. You gotta give them that. The switches may be operated by hand, but they’re safe.

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      The switches may be operated by hand, but they’re safe.

      Yeah, about that, check what happened in Greece a year ago (~60 people dead and the government still tries hard to interfere with justice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash

      (I’m mentioning Greece, because I think our rails don’t have many fail-safes and are kinda manually operated.)