re: #167 Targetpractice

Yeah, this is not looking good. Short of blaming malfunctioning equipment, there’s only one real conclusion to reach based upon that sort of data, and it’s definitely not operator error. 30 mph in 1 minute? Either we were talking a runaway train or this guy deliberately threw that train into the curve at twice the speed it could safely make the turn.

I remember the story a friend of mine told quite a while back… he was driving home late at night, freeway empty, not trying to speed, but not really paying attention to how fast he was going… the traffic cop who stopped him clocked him at 115 mph. And it didn’t take him long to get up to that speed either.

I’ve never driven a train, so I don’t know whether the cases are parallel, but it’s easy for attention to lapse on an empty road you know well.