Episode 535 • • 2:14:26 - 2:19:43
535: Swivel-Chair Speed
Spanish High-Speed Rail Crash, Signaling Failures, GE Recruitment
The fatal train crash in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is analyzed. While the media blamed the engineer for speeding, a General Electric expert and a Spanish civil engineer suggest the real issue was a lack of automatic signaling on that specific section of the track. The crash occurred on a "high performance" line rather than a true high-speed line, meaning the safety systems were not continuous.