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The main ideas is for something to fail safely, as such the term failsafe. Car gets disconnected, loses air pressure, brakes kick on. If the mechanisms in the brakes are jammed, worn out, neglected, if oil/chems have been leaking on them, then really really bad things happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake

Disclaimer: I am not that kind of engineer, they won't let me drive the engines, something about not being trained right. ;) Also, my only model train died a horrible horrible death when I was like 7-8, so, not cut out to be a hobbyist.

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So that would make your a Commen-tatar. :D

Oh yeah, going to hell for that one. ;)

Kind of an interesting part of the world, nobody outside central asia ever hears much about it, and yet, all kinda of crazy world history revolves around it. The American-Indians were from there 9-12 thousand years ago, south, north, and central. Also various migrations, invasion, hoards, you name it have spread from there to just about everywhere in Eurasia, meaning your genepool covers everywhere but parts of Africa, and on that I'm not 100% on. Probably some people with that ancestry in North Africa at the least.

It's a crazy idea, but if people of your genetic background all unified, they could control the world, again, lol! :D