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Should trains have yellow rear ends to reduce collisions?

positron

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The BBC on Saturday posted an photo of the impact and it shows 60115 rear painted yellow crushed by 810015. So unless its a AI image the rear was yellow not grey.
The 360 (the train with yellow paint) went into the back of the 810 (the one without yellow paint). Jumping to AI rather than 'maybe I'm wrong' is a bit odd.
 
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lowe1409

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The BBC on Saturday posted an photo of the impact and it shows 60115 rear painted yellow crushed by 810015. So unless its a AI image the rear was yellow not grey.
Least damage doesn't mean fastest moving. All as what that proves is that the 810 was a better designed and constructed unit that proved to be more crash worthy. To put it another way, if a car rear ended a stationary lorry at 50+mph, I guarantee the lorry will crush the car despite the lorry being stationary.
 

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Least damage doesn't mean fastest moving. All as what that proves is that the 810 was a better designed and constructed unit that proved to be more crash worthy. To put it another way, if a car rear ended a stationary lorry at 50+mph, I guarantee the lorry will crush the car despite the lorry being stationary.

Or that if you hit a flat thing with a pointy thing it's very hard to make the flat thing strong enough for the pointy thing not to cave it in.
 

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