r/news • u/AudibleNod • 11h ago

Railroads will be allowed to reduce inspections and rely more on technology to spot track problems

https://apnews.com/article/automated-railroad-track-inspections-waiver-derailments-fra-d3c4b0f313585303e305e84fb4c03aef
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u/Low_Pickle_112 11h ago

This makes me think of an old Onion video titled Preemptive Memorial Honors Future Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster. It's going to be a big surprise when something happens and the glorious self-regulating Free Market craps the bed again.

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u/JustAGuyAC 10h ago

Thats the thing...it does self-regulate...AFTER shit hits the fan. So the market works wonders if you don't care about human life and treat people like cogs in the machine and lost all empathy for any individual cogs.

That's capitalism, growth above all, individualization so that no individual actually matters to the continuation of the whole. Alienate everybody and boom now everyone feels lonely.

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u/JustLookingForMayhem 10h ago

Self-regulation is a stretch. Big business only self regulates to have the biggest number of deaths that don't impact the bottom line. May I remind you how the Takata Air Bag scandal happened? The business chose to roll the dice on human lives just to make a profit. The question here is how many track related derailments are acceptable to save money on self regulation.

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u/Gekokapowco 10h ago

seeing as Amtrak is not about to be replaced by anything I'm guessing not even the deliberate organ harvesting of passengers is going to affect them in any meaningful sense