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Originally Posted by spdrun
No matter how much you idiot-proof a system, humanity will always make a better idiot. I wonder if they had automatic train speed control on that line, and how easy it was to override if they did. Shades of Casey Jones, who, despite the legend, was kind of a hot-dogging clown as well...
But hey, at least Spain has a working system of public transport, and it's still probably 10x safer than driving!
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The quote about the 'better idiots' was posted in our engineering section. There is a great deal of truth to that statement.
We were sometimes told by new managers to 'take risks' which was shorthand for 'make more money so I can get a bigger bonus'.
We had to inform them we were in the business of safely producing products from hydrocarbons, and that if they were looking for someone to take a risk they were willing to try their hand at it anytime they wished.
Over a 40 year time span not one took us up on the offer.