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Dog hit by Waymo in SF, weeks after beloved cat struck and killed

4 days agoSunday's incident comes just weeks after a beloved cat, known as the "Mayor of 16th Street," was struck and killed by a Waymo in San Francisco's

I'm sure the RRs will create a concept of a plan, as they reduce the number of inspectors.

RR execs will expect bonuses.

People who live near the tracks. Hell it’s a 50/50 shot they live on the wrong side anyway.


It’s like the derailment in East Palestine Ohio wasn’t really that important to them other than for the political TV coverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_derailment

It improves quality of manufacturing.

My father in law was railroad and it changed my wife’s life trajectory. That’s why her father got the job. My mother in law has her own railroad pension because of the union. He paid into that not Social Security.

MAGA are always willing to sacrifice such people even if they voted MAGA.

I am guessing they ran some sort of a pilot, already. It would be interesting to see the data they are using to make this call.

Equip a rail car with sensors that measure things that a group of people walking down the tracks cant.

Lets face it, using technology has benefits.

not to enhance safety, but to save money and to serve as an excuse to fire people.

That is the benefit Duffy and the railroad companies care about

If people have a knee-jerk reaction by now, it is not against technology so much as the people pushing it.

The tech industry has to face the fact that they are going to be viewed with suspicion going forward when they have: 1) blatantly or passively championed deregulation; 2) are okay with or actively for algorithmic capture of reality with divide and rule that invariably gives an edge to politicians with the least democratic instincts imaginable (all of the GOP and a handful of conservadems) and 3) hyped up mediocre, sub-standard trash like it’s amazing. That last makes the deregulation and secrecy with which they operate look especially suspicious. These are people with such huge egos. If they are secretive as they typically are, it’s not something awesome they are hiding. It’s collateral damage and mediocrity ffs. A credulous or bought off tech press gushes about so much junk that the whole enterprise has lost all credibility.

I would love for the backlash against Trump to focus on these technofascists over pettier crap in a populace that is going crazy.
They are the cancer striking at the very roots of democracy and this wasn’t overnight. This is a 20 year (at least) project at this point.

These are their bloody patron saints:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/google-ap-amit-mehta-san-francisco-sundar-pichai-b2592280.html

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-eliminate-regulations

This is the world they want-where “woke” or left is a bloody sleazy monopolist and covert fascist like Google and the right is the increasingly Nazi, overtly fascistic Musk.
None of this is about tech. That’s a strawman.

It’s about these parasitic billionaires (and their sycophants) behind the tech.

(And I scoff at any MTG style “populists” they try to shill next. With that ass Vance pretending to be a fan of Bernie, Zohran and Ro Khanna (I guess AOC, being a woman, didn’t make the cut), some sort of totally phony, Thiel funded astroturf “anti tech” is going to be the next bullshit pitch to exploit the backlash.

It’s one long exasperating grift. It’s similar to an ass like Tristan Harris sounding faux alarms about tech - those fake populists of the GOP.)

I have many rants inside my head these days and Trump 2.0 makes them spill out more but ..lol..I have mixed feelings about posting anything impassioned even under an anonymous handle

Self consciousness kicks in whenever indignation fades ;-/.

It doesn’t fade much these days though

And it can alert engineers and technicians ahead of time when something about to breakdown.

But I’m wary of technology being a replacement for human inspections. As we know with this administration, regulations that enhance safety are viewed as a burden, so this is just another way to make things easier and cheaper for the corporations.

It was a specialized sleep away/galley car with 3 or 4 people.

They had these metal brushes that swept over the rails. These would send electrical signals to, I think, oscilloscopes.

What they were looking out for was hidden rail metal fatigue, particularly because the rails were experiencing massive increases in load bearing during the war.

The rails would start to hollow out from the inside - so totally hidden!
But it would be indicated by a difference in the electrical signals displayed.
I think they sprayed red paint at those spots for the repair crews.

Three days for repairs?! Doesn't sound very good. Maybe depends on what needs repairing.
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On rare occasions at night while in the subway I've seen a practically windowless car come through. I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was doing the same monitoring.

Thanks..bookmarking.
I woke up with a severe headache this morning that’s making thinking harder than usual, but I should reread it later.

on local train switching. What used to be a four man crew, is now done by one person walking along side of the train with a remote control in his hands operating the engine.

protecting them on limits of liability...

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…. just let the fires burn off the chemicals because that was the easiest and cheapest way to go. Instead of covering the fires with foam, then water, recovering the foam, water, and any of the chemicals that had
leaked out, and then when it was save removing the remaining chemicals from the tank cars.