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[–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are there more accidents like this happening or are we just more aware of them?

Didn’t this happen in Spain? How does a mistake like this happen?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Mostly just more aware.

    The problem in Spain is that the automatic system failed, causing trains to come to a stop, as designed. A human dispatcher granted a train permission to proceed manually, despite there being another train on the track in front of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Also worth mentioning that a nearly identical incident happened in January with dozens of deaths as well, and the money the EU granted at the time to improve the system and avoid another catastrophe vanished almost immediately.

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