Nick Chillianis posted:superwarp1 posted:PTC is not going to be the the cure all, beat all to preventing collisions or what have you. Billions being spent and !@#$ will still happen.
Every time there is a railroad incident the mediots go to their favorite new buzzword, PTC, and speculate breathlessly on whether it would have prevented the incident. In most cases it would not. Still they tout it as a cure for everything from head-on-collisions to E.D., because mediots have the mindset that government intervention is always what's needed to save humans from themselves.
Yeah. I remember when they started requiring car manufacturers to install seat belts, and requiring tobacco companies to put warning labels on cigarettes, and requiring drug companies to have their drugs tested before releasing on the public, and requiring asbestos to be removed, and requiring clutches on lawnmowers to keep people from chopping off their feet, and requiring boats to have life preservers, and etc. etc. etc. This intervention stuff is just too much. 
