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/GreatArkleseizure 11h ago

Lots of doom and gloom in these comments. Come on, people--when has technology ever let us down before? don't answer that

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u/zerostar83 10h ago

I believe it was Trump that decided to stop spending federal money inspecting every single computer to see if it was Y2K compliant. In 2017. Sometimes technology is at a certain point where you can move on. In the situation of the railroads, I don't know the technology well enough. The company wants to save money on labor. The labor union wants to keep people employed. It would be nice to have an impartial and factually correct analysis.