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Old 07-23-2024, 09:06 AM
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Default Remote Control Locomotive hits house

More job security for pilots worried about automation taking jobs:

A CSX locomotive that was under remote control jumped the tracks and smashed into the garage of a home. Luckily no one was injured.
This was the 2nd time the house was hit by a train, the first was in the 1990's:

https://youtu.be/nFgZ0nwgfec?list=TL...MjQlxgrkOE3x6w
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Old 07-23-2024, 11:31 AM
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More job security for pilots worried about automation taking jobs:

A CSX locomotive that was under remote control jumped the tracks and smashed into the garage of a home. Luckily no one was injured.
This was the 2nd time the house was hit by a train, the first was in the 1990's:

https://youtu.be/nFgZ0nwgfec?list=TL...MjQlxgrkOE3x6w
Yep. If you can't safely and reliably operate something ON STEEL RAILS with a maximum 2.2% grade (average freight train) something moving in three dimensions held up only by Bernoulli's principle being balanced against gravity traveling six or seven times as fast seems a bridge or two too far...
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