by JackRussell
scoostraw wrote:Feds Trying to Determine If Amtrak Engineer Was Using PhoneHardly news - we all knew the NTSB was going to look at this from the moment the accident happened.
Data used doesn't mean much these days. Modern phones go out and do stuff on their own - download email, update apps, check twitter, etc. All without any human intervention. It is sometimes difficult to get them to stop this, in fact.
I hope for his sake that the calls and texts were all while he was in DC before setting off in #188. They might in fact be able to use cell tower records to easily determine where he was at the time these calls and texts took place.