Item 1: It is now revealed that the train in the recent deadly derailing in Philadelphia was rolling along at twice the speed limit for that stretch of track.
Item 2: A sales exec is suing her former employer after being fired for uninstalling a GPS tracking app from her phone that allowed the company to track the movements of its sales force, 24×7, including after work hours … including how fast they drive.
Item 3: During Google’s recent on-road test of its self-driving robot cars, all of the wrecks that occurred were caused by humans driving the other cars on the road.
My readers are smart, and I’m sure you’ve already made a connections here.
America should not have a world-class passenger rail system. America should have a world-aweing passenger rail system. Rail travel is central to American history. In fact, one reason our railways are so technologically behind those in other countries—where bullet trains reach speeds of 300+ km/hour—is that we Yanks started laying track so early.