01-18-2016, 06:23 PM
(01-18-2016, 06:19 PM)Markster Wrote: That bus that ran through a closed gate with flashing signals. If we can't make some assumptions (i.e. that buses will stop at red lights), then we can't function as a society.
Yet, if the bus needed to always stop at rail crossings the driver would have been decelerating in auto-pilot mode, rather than accelerating.
The way I heard it is that bus/train collisions are rare, but when they happen mortality figures tend to be very high, thus the extra caution.