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Costello who covers transportation for us and joins me now. tom, we've got the technology. it can save lives. why isn't it there? >> there are a number of reasons. first of all, this is like automatic braking in your car. if you get too close to the car in front of you, the computer slams on the brakes. with transponders buried in the tracks, and then you've got computers guiding and watching every position of every train so when it goes into a speed reduction zone it slows down. if it doesn't, it slams on the brakes. it doesn't allow you to slam into a train ahead of you. now, congress mandat...

Forgot he was supposed to start slowing down because the train at that point was speeding up. keep in mind this engineer had only been on that stretch of these tracks for three week. that's it. and by the way, they have been having problems with rock throwers on this stretch of amtrak track for 40 years. teddy roosevelt's train was hit in 1905. i can assistance also tell you the federal railroad administration has ordered emergency steps for amtrak to take. they have to put on more speed limit signs. they have to add automatic braking. amtrak says it's doing all of the above. >> tom, thanks ve...

Situational awareness, that he forgot he was supposed to start slowing down because the train at that point was speeding up. keep in mind this engineer had only been on that stretch of these tracks for three week. that's it. and by the way, they have been having problems with rock throwers on this stretch of amtrak track for 40 years. teddy roosevelt's train was hit in 1905. i can assistance also tell you the federal railroad administration has ordered emergency steps for amtrak to take. they have to put on more speed limit signs. they have to add automatic braking. amtrak says it's doing all ...