u/FillAny3101

The machinist trolley problem
🔥 Hot ▲ 72 r/trolleyproblem

The machinist trolley problem

You are driving a trolley, when suddenly you are presented with a horrific view: right in front of you, there's five people tied to the tracks! It's too late to stop, but there's switch leading to another track right before the five, and you could toggle it by pressing a button on the trolley thanks to the RTSMMTDP (Remote Track Switching Mechanism with Multi-Track Drift Prevention).

But as you approach the junction, you notice another thing: Like in every Reddit post about the Trolley Problem you've seen so far, there's another person tied to the other track. If you press the button, one person will die because of your action. But if you don't, five people will die due to your negligence. You will not be judged if you don't press the button, since trolley drivers are not expected to make such a choice, but regulations require you to fill out a 30 page form for each person that gets fatally hit by the trolley you are driving. On the other hand, if you do toggle the switch, the family and friends of the guy on the second track will be mad at you, claiming that you killed him by diverting from the trolley's regular route.

Given these circumstances, would you press the button?

u/FillAny3101 — 6 hours ago
▲ 35 r/openttd

The largest deadlock I've seen so far

Ladies and Gentlemen, feast your eyes on this deadlock! Because of one misplaced signal, 11 trains of 8 lines cannot move, with more coming in! To resolve it, I reversed the blocking train (marked by the red arrow) and made it go back to the station D, then removed the signal. Do you have any suggestions to improve the efficiency of this section?

u/FillAny3101 — 7 days ago