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>> you sort of look around. the train is dark. >> i hear people first. >> what do you hear? >> people screaming, asking questions, how do we get off of here, what happened? not complete chaos, but more so shock and fear. and i looked to my left and there's a woman in the aisle and she's bleeding from her head and i asked her, i said are you okay? she said i'm okay i'm okay i'm okay. >> and then what happens? >> and then i see smoke starting to come into the car, and then that's when i got scared. i was just thinking can this car catch on fire? can something blow up? why did this happen? once i...

>> thanks a lot for taking the time today, i appreciate it. >> firsthand account for a passenger of amtrak train 188 next.

Because he was on his cell phone texting, he missed that signal that was telling him there was another train on the track ahead and he should not proceed down that track. he missed the signal, and that train he was driving smashed into the freight train and 25 people were killed, 25 people killed including the metro link engineer who was on his cell phone. 25 fatalities, a huge number of fatalities, right? more than 100 people injured badly enough to be taken to the hospital, it was the worst rail incident in l.a. history, we know why it happened. that was september 2008. by the following mont...

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If it seems like something is wrong, if the train seems to have not noticed a signal or if the train is speeding, right? if the train engineer doesn't respond to that signal, positive train control can override the human. override that locomotive engineer and automatically slow the train down or stop the train by remote control. this sort of system does require equipment upgrades to trains, it requires putting a lot of basic train infrastructure on the grid it requires some gps technology. but, yeah, this is not like learning to live on mars, right? this is basic kind of atari level computeriz...