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Engineer, 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, putting a lot of basic train infrastructure on the grid. it requires some gps technology. this is not like learning to live on mars, right? this is basic kind of atari level computerized safety systems for america's trains, and they ...

Or more and that force becomes much greater. gravity is low enough and it's heavy enough up here, it will stay on the tracks. that's not the case back there. the center of gravity is different back here. the weight distribution is different and that's why some passenger say they felt the car sort of flying up off the tracks. we know that can happen because we saw it happen in spain when this train crash occurred. the train was supposed to be going 50 miles per hour. instead, it was going over a hundred. watch you who it slings those passenger cars off behind it and they pull the locomotive off...

Sure he wasn't on the phone, there is a search warrant trying to get on his phone, information that might have been incriminating or explains what is going on. >> and there was a train incident in the past where a train engineer was believed to be on the phone. >> that is right. we're speaking beyond my knowledge here, but i also believe that engineers on amtrak are not supposed to even have phones. >> and the bottom line is they want to make sure he wasn't distracted by anything, whether it be a phone or anything else for that matter. >> tired or sleep or whatever it may have been. again, a l...

Will come out. it looks that way, but a lot of it was saying don't jump to judgment. let's have the investigation and -- >> and the ntsb hasn't spoken to the train engineer yet, either. we're hearing more about the derailment from the passengers who survive it. >> gayle rooney describes the scene to don lemon. >> so i take the train home all the time. this is my usual train. everything is always fine. you're on a train and you assume nothing is going to happen to you. trains are supposed to be the safest method of transportation. it was so horrific. there were people catapulted up into the lob...

Bostian. give us a sense of what we know about him, especially in terms of his experience as a train engineer. >> well, we know he started with amtrak in 2006 as a conductor and in 2010 he moved up to be an engineer. so he has almost a decade of experience. what we know about what happened, he was going 106 miles per hour. the train was. and he tried to put on the brakes at the last second according to officials. but it was just too late. we know that after that he was treated at a local hospital and then he spoke to police initially yesterday. but today when they sat down to interview him aga...