by Tadman
electricron wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:20 pm How does a car get on top of the grade separated NEC?And yet it seems to happen once a year anyway. Two years ago I was on the Sunset going to Tucson for the holiday. We were held out of the station for two hours plus. Turns out a woman had driven off the parking lot, over the platform, and onto the tracks, where she took a right and drove her BMW sedan a bit before it gave up. HOW THE F DOES THIS HAPPEN???? You can't even go near a platform at most stations without the folks hollering at you, and yet a 4000lb sedan gets over there???
ExCon90 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:40 pm Slavish reliance on GPS?Yes, and that's nuts. It happened recently again, someone turned too early and went onto the ROW. The car was hit by an Amtrak train. I feel like some people just follow their GPS without looking up. Didn't they make a Michael Scott joke about that? He drove his PT Cruiser into a lake because he didn't look up [and was an idiot]?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY
I fear for America some days if we have that many Michael Scotts driving around.
The new Acela: It's not Aveliable.