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Around that curve at what appears to be an excessive speed. the speed should have been about 50 miles an hour when the indications are it was doing at least twice that speed. jenna: and so you say one of the things, you know, we don't have high-speed rail in our country the same way that it's built in europe. and one of the things that you have some questions about is something called a european train control system. what is that and why does it matter? >> well, it's a european system that replaces conventional signaling. because trains go faster, it's not possible for the driver to visually s...

Using safety technology designed to automatically stop a train from speeding when the deadly derailment occurred. >> track 501, emergency, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. >> is everybody okay? >> i'm still figuring that out. we've got cars everywhere. down on to the highway. >> reporter: authorities say the target date to have the safety technology, the positive train control system working spring of next year. mayor of a nearby town expressing separate concerns about the safety of the track earlier this month. >> come back when there is an accident and try to justify not putting i...

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Stop train. would there have been a warning? back on the left side, the positive train control system that will warn of speed violations and even stop a train, but that system is not on the tracks where amtrak 188 derailed. you think at 80 miles an hour, this train could have actually made this, but at 106 it couldn't? >> i don't think so. this corner itself would have a capability of having a train be able to go around it, it would be rough at 80 miles an hour. but it cannot go higher than that. >> the engine involved in the derailment is still here. you can see some of the damage it suffered...

Included and folded into the investigation. however, that certainly does not negate the facts, steve, that a positive train control system would have prevented -- slowed this train down, regardless of any type of human error or that could have resulted in the acceleration of the train going into the serve. >> when you start seeing the talk and the reports of the projectiles, the possibility of sabotage, of something intentional here from somebody not on the train is at least raised. what do you think of that? >> well during my tenure at the ntsb in the 1990's as chairman there were two inciden...