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/PRNewswire/ -- The "Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) for Defense and Security - Market and Technology Forecast to 2030" report has been added to...

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Particular section of the track appears to be very straight, not congested, no other areas where surface traffic crosses the train tracks, which is literally the cause of the majority of train crashes in the united states. the desolation is both, you know, a problem for the investigation, in terms of logistics and a problem for the investigation as they scratch their heads and say, why here? when we dont have the usual compounding factors. >> right. mary, you mentioned earlier that amtrak and i ...

Versed in knowing what the common causes of a train derailment are, what do you make of the scene and what could have happened? >> pete made a lot of great points the number one cause for train derailments or accidents is other traffic, surface traffic crossing the track. here that doesnt appear to be the case at all. the second most likely cause is always speed, but often speed going into a curve or some part of the track where speed is limited, just as pete mentioned. here again, the reports a...

Theres a lot of traffic in that area, boats, air, you have to be careful and make sure everything is right but make no mistake all the options are still on the table. heather: we were just discussing that before you came on. the faa issued this no-fly zone. not sure what you call it but apparently there was an aircraft within 45 nautical miles of the drone when the drone was hit. heather: theres a lot of surface traffic, regular air traffic and for iran to just fire a surface to air missile lock...

Congressman zeldin was telling us. almost every republican member of the house and senate were on and are on this train that was headed from washington, d.c., to a retreat in west virginia and apparently hit a truck in crozet, virginia, just outside of charlottesville. at first blush, knowing the facts that we know, which is not a lot right now, and hearing the firsthand accounts, whats your sense of this? >> well, other than the train was full of, you know, a large number of members of congress...

Perspective, whether in japan or elsewhere, the trains are moving a lot more quickly than they are in the united states. >> absolutely. i had a chance to work at japan rail for a short period of time when i was inspector general. whats cool and interesting and different about japan and the bullet trains is in the lines, there is no place, for example, where the trains meet surface traffic. they have overpasses and thats eliminated. they legality the tracks for them and they dont have these -- th...

Unthinkable. >> in that decade following september 11th, what we have seen is a steady increase in safety. there have been events that ultimately inflated the level of attention and interest in air accidents like the ones that we have seen this year so certainly, in terms of the ability to lose an airplane certainly what we have got is aircraft transiting over water, so certainly, its an area that wouldnt have you know beyond surface traffic with ships, not really a whole lot of you know coverag...

Our energy is clean energy. we fly above the traffic and thats the most important element of this system. youre never stuck in surface traffic. youre not stopping behind the vehicles ahead of you. you dont have to look out for accidents, little kids running into the street. youre above all of that, flying along, supremely and sublimely at anywhere between 50 to 150 miles an hour. so were excited about the prospect of finally moving this technology from the drawing board and our computers and our...