On 12/19/2017 10:14 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

They are probably checking the engineer's Facebook page to see if he was updating it while approaching the curve.

Yah and then how hard can it be to drive a train?Â* Sure, you have to anticipate long stops based on load but you'd think by now trivial stuff like that would be automated.

GoogleTracks running on a Raspberry Pi and a throttle servo ought to do it