We’re supposed to have faith in self-driving cars. Yet we can’t seem to prevent two trains from colliding.
This is a reference to the March 1 head-on train crash in Greece. According to the BBC and The Guardian, “The passenger train and the freight train were travelling in opposite directions but ended up on the same track”1 and “The two trains are thought to have travelled along the same track for 2-3km before they met head-on.”2
Maybe the problem with trains is that they’re confined to a limited number of paths (tracks), which increases the chances of a crash. The reason we have so few airplane collisions is only because of how improbable it is that two planes would occupy the same space during most of their flights.
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