The name existed before the book.

Google for Audi A4 Technical Service Bulletins. You’ll find a much longer list.

We have a very different situation in Santiago de Compostela: a much more gentle curve merging

“On average, Europe’s system is a lot safer than the US’s.”

Gas is over a dollar cheaper per gallon in 2017 than the NHTSA projected it would be back in 2012.

“You do realize you can pay more than you legally owe, right?”

Dabbing.

I do not understand why you brought up the absolute death toll

you resorted to whataboutism

How about Mazda Motorsport Park?

Seems you forgot about the 96 deaths in the Eschede crash. My word, when it comes to train fatalities, you Europeans are way ahead.

“Substantial improvements gradually started to happen since the late 1960's and only really started taking off in the 1980's”

“if you don’t have technical measures that help slow down a speeding train and took measures on how to prevent it”

“It really did indeed slip my mind”

Transit docs or not, the train was going faster than 30mph.

“while the rest of the world went through 70 years of technological advances.”

Photo of speedlimit sign from 9news (click on the first image for info)

So you blather on and on about how crappy and unsafe US rail is, only to cite a European crash that killed more people?

transitdocs or not - I would be willing to bet that the train travelling faster than 30mph.

The speed limit at the curve where the train crosses Interstate 5 is 30 miles per hour, said state transportation department spokeswoman Barbara LaBoe, while the speed limit on most of the track is 79 mph. She said speed-limit signs are posted two miles before the lowered speed zone and then just before the…