Massive failure: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Lightning-Sparks-Chinese-Train-Crash-11-Dead-126061533.html
Ouch. Drop a phase and those motors just won't run right. Drop a phase at high speeds and you are toast. Blame the designers for not building in surge protection since it is readily available and does work quite well when properly designed and installed.
Something got into either the controller or the motor power supply. Had they had better surge protection this might have been just an inconvenience instead of being a fatal accident. The track control software should never have let this happen either. Detect a train hasn't crossed a point and shut down the trains behind to avoid rear end accidents. Technically avoidable.
Humans fault equipment, but burying wreckage at accident scene not well received: http://www.voanews.com/english/news...uipment-for-Deadly-Train-Crash-126307418.html Add this to my list of reasons not to travel there.
Massive failure on the part of the designers to provide proper track monitoring equipment. They've had some of the managers arrested over this incident. Might wind up costing China $$$$$ in exports for this train. Sad thing is that it didn't need to happen.
Nothing that won't be solved by a few bullets in the back of the head ... or by the 100-year-old technology that most of the world now uses.
The fallout from this isn't over yet. PRC officials have recalled some of the trains. Funny thing is that no one has ever been killed like this while riding a Japanese bullet train. Different safety standards.
Faster, faster, kill, kill? http://www.voanews.com/english/news...jects-as-Wreck-Probe-Continues-127471708.html
