Friday, October 28, 2011

Upgrading railroad signals in the age of the smart phone?

But speeds should get better. Caltrain is installing a new signal system this weekend that will enable trains to move more quickly in and out of the station. And by 2015, the agency expects to update signals along the entire corridor from Gilroy to San Francisco. Mercury News

OK, this is one of those things that get me. Upgrading signals? Someone is caught in a delusion.

Call the high school kid with internet technology!!

It is not upgrade signals any more, it is down load the railroad engineer's gps navigator for his smart phone. Or better yet, just have the search engine report the location of trains on their maps, making sure each train has a smart phone.

If you really want smart, wire the smart phone to the locomotive accelerator. The bots can keep these trains inches apart, if you get the humans out of the way.

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