This system, Positive Train Control (PTC), is intended to stop or slow a train automatically if a driver goes too fast or passes a red signal.
McMillan was one of nine people killed when her train, under automatic computer control, apparently failed to register a signal and avoid a collision with a train that had stopped near a curve between two stations.
This is nearly impossible given the variability of demand (at the mercy of fuel prices and the economy) and the limited control train operators have over costs, which continue to rise steadily.
Leaving train operations under public control is also most unlikely to result in efficiency gains.
In a unified structure, he argues, contractual relationships are simplified and train operators are in sole control of their performance.
Instead of simply unloading the insecticide on distributors, Dow has taken the pains to continually train 1, 000 pest control companies in how to use it.
The Mini was one of the first cars to popularize the use of the universal joint in the drive train, previously used in submarine control gear.
This slight, bespectacled Metro Man says the expansion, which includes a high-speed airport train to the city center, is all under control.
Having started devolution rolling, this theory goes, Mr Blair has set in train changes that he can now do little to control.
The alarming thing for us in the train cars is that not only do we have little control over this stalemate but it is hard to imagine the two sides coming together to create a sensible solution between now and the new year.
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When a test train this week was parked in the same location, the control circuitry did not signal that it was there.
It is also to prevent the government -- give safe space to the Afghan government as it continues to take control, and to give us a time to train up Afghan national security forces, which we are doing.
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The young hero, Hugo Cabret, through a series of events outside his control, lives a clandestine life in a grand but unnamed train station in Paris and spends his days winding the enormous clocks which are the unerring reference points for the coming and going of trains connecting all the legendary capitals of Europe across its ancient timeless landscapes.
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Without realizing it, he says, humans set into motion a train of events we didn't realize we were in no position to control.
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