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LA-area commuter trains get crash-avoidance system

By Justin Pritchard
Published February 20, 2014 3:02am ET
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LA-area commuter trains get crash-avoidance system
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s commuter train network has become an early adopter of crash-avoidance technology that one of its own horrific accidents helped make mandatory. Metrolink quietly rolled out a train Monday morning equipped with “positive train control,” which lets dispatchers halt engines remotely if they speed or blow through stop signals. A […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s commuter train network has become an early adopter of crash-avoidance technology that one of its own horrific accidents helped make mandatory.

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