Soooo many safety concerns exist in unimaginable situations only because just a handful of people are aware of them.

This is why its important to have things out in the open. You can't get away with the "nobody knows" excuse like you can with proprietary software.

Wait, WHO LET TRAINS INTO THIS COUNTRY WITH NO BRAKES!

Those are dangerous murderers!

Deport those trains immediately!

thunderous ughhhhh

Liquidate the operators. Nationalise now.

Operators is in the title and then never again in the article.

I had a vendor tell me their new wireless device doesn't need a password because it's proprietary and they'd need the hardware and software from said vendor. Hardware and software that literally anyone can buy from their website. My company bought them anyway. FML.

That's just so typical that the AAR is refusing to take any action to correct something except when absolutely forced to

The big railroads are laser focused on short term profits these days, to the detriment of long-term investment and public safety. A fix would probably require updating or replacing the Head of Train transceiver on every locomotive, and that’s not good for quarterly dividends.