On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:50:05 -0000, "Chris Jones"
wrote:

Because trains are pretty safe at 183mph whereas cars are
pretty dangerous.

But train tracks don't have the visibility for 183 mph. If some kids throw
some garbage onto the line (like they did a few weeks ago when they pushed a
car onto the CTRL), by the time the train driver sees it, too late he's
dead. He can't steer around it or take any other avoiding action.
Sounds pretty dangerous to me.

Yes, but you might be ludicrously biased.

Rail lines are not perfectly safe. But are you *seriously* trying to
allege that any real or imagined problem you can come up with for a
train to deal with doesn't have a road parallel?

Your car, at 183mph, has to contend with cars operated by distracted
drivers, drivers at 57mph, drivers who are drunk, pedestrians throwing
rocks from bridges, drivers who are making ill-considered judgements
about weather conditions, etc.

Malc.