(Split from another topic)
The relatives of those killed in the Waterfall crash might have a more balanced view on this matter. When a software system like ERTMS or the older ATP could have prevented seven people dying, you go and install it regardless of whether it makes a handful of drivers feel less important.The ICE radio? It still works as a mobile phone! I might as well add to my dislike of acronyms...
I don't know what ICE stands for, nor ERTMS, so I can hardly comment. I imagine that they are both part of the machine that stops a locomotive from being a machine that hauls a train and turns it into a software bunny to simplify safeworking by reducing staff and making it even more complicated than the current radio systems, hence the reason we use the mobile phone to talk to sinalboxes and train control!
Mick
(Software, bah humbug!)
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