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What's the reason for the bullet train crash in China?

• I read a blog about the reason for the bullet train crash in China: As to what caused the rear-end crash, the first thing that comes to people’s mind is the failure on the dispatch management. It’s no doubt that something is wrong with the rail dispatch system, which was unable to prevent the train followed to slow down or to halt in the rear-end collision. Mr. Shuai, a rail expert, said that the rear-end crash was theoretically impossible because the dispatch center could be informed the bullet train’s operation and position by two ways. First, the bullet trains have radio signaling systems to keep in touch with the dispatch center, which is usually set up in every railway bureau. For instance, in the deadly accident on July 23 in Wenzhou, the Shanghai railway bureau has such a dispatch center giving orders to trains running in Zhejiang, including the two trains that collided. Second, even if the lightning strike disabled the radio signaling system, the low-voltage rail should be able to detect a train on the path. Then it can send the information to the dispatch center's computer system, which is a very reliable way to inform the dispatch center. After receving the information, the dispatch center's computer system can automatically give a warning about train malfunctions or two trains comming too close, etc. It's written in http://www.interpretersky.com/blog, what else can you think of the reason for the accident.

• Answer:

  Reason is simple, it is easy to copy the hardware of a product, from consumer products, cars to state of art buildings, bridges, roads, bullet trians etc, etc. Simply buy a sample of the foreign product, have it torn apart and learn how every component is put together. But software that requires all human aspects eg analytical brains particularly in the tackling of details, human co-ordinations, on-site and team-work experiences, behaviors and cultures etc etc are still lagging far behind. Case in point, Shanghai is boasting itself a trading and finance center but the city is good only by appearance, the people's and government's ways of doing things are still incapable and lousy. All railway staff only have 1 goal in mind, to get the project out on schedule in order to make the ruling party look good, issues relating to safety and human lifes are secondary as in the eyes of a dictator government, CCP's image is top priority, human lifes all are ants.