Michael Cash wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:04:42 +1000, Wilson <fake@email.com> brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> 
>>Maybe if the driver had played Densha De Go more often, this wouldn't 
>>have happened.
> 
> 
> Here's food for thought:
> 
> Imagine if the vehicle in question had been an automobile instead of a
> train.
> 
> At 11 months total driving experience, the driver would still be over
> two years away from even being eligible to upgrade to a license to
> drive a bus.
> 
> So in the case of automotive licensing, the system would consider him
> far short of being capable of hauling 30 or 40 people around. Yet in
> the case of choo-choo licensing they give him a limited express with
> 580 people onboard.

It was a limited express?  I didn't know that, although I don't know how 
I missed it, since I've been sitting at home watching the news for the 
last hour.

It's interesting how Japanese news outlets emphasize that the crash was 
after peak commutation hours and was (relatively) empty, but English 
language outlets say things like "A packed commuter train jumped the 
tracks..." (ABC) and " A crowded Japanese commuter train" (Reuters).

It's all relative, I suppose.

-- 
Curt Fischer