10-25-2017, 08:55 PM
Probably lawyers arguing over who's liable WHEN (not if) the LRV gets hit during testing or trying to find a insurance company to back that risk.
Or maybe they are debating whether the contract was supposed to include an owners manual and trains or if it was just for the trains.
What I don't understand is, why set themselves up for potential disappointment? Why announce in mid-September "three before November"? Why not just have them show up? "Oh look we said 14 by the of the year and we are getting closer to that goal."
It's like they've got the old truism, "under-promise and over-deliver" backwards as a company motto.
The more I think about the amount of burn in time (600km per LRV) and testing they still need to do the more unlikely "May 1" seems. That's 8,400km of burn in kilometres to complete or 494.12 trips down the 17km (is that what we settled on for length?). At revenue service speeds that would be 46min per trip or a total of 22,729.41min or 378.82 hours or 15.78 days (24/7) of burn-in time; and the burn-in will not likely be at the regular speeds for the first while so it will take longer. Then there is system wide testing on top of all of that.
Or maybe they are debating whether the contract was supposed to include an owners manual and trains or if it was just for the trains.
What I don't understand is, why set themselves up for potential disappointment? Why announce in mid-September "three before November"? Why not just have them show up? "Oh look we said 14 by the of the year and we are getting closer to that goal."
It's like they've got the old truism, "under-promise and over-deliver" backwards as a company motto.
The more I think about the amount of burn in time (600km per LRV) and testing they still need to do the more unlikely "May 1" seems. That's 8,400km of burn in kilometres to complete or 494.12 trips down the 17km (is that what we settled on for length?). At revenue service speeds that would be 46min per trip or a total of 22,729.41min or 378.82 hours or 15.78 days (24/7) of burn-in time; and the burn-in will not likely be at the regular speeds for the first while so it will take longer. Then there is system wide testing on top of all of that.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.