Getting a maximum level message and then having to check another thing is not the best way to do it. The messages should be useful without further checking. In case of phone network overload, they can be the only thing the user can read.

Based in the description of levels for EU-Alert, Spain could be using it wrong. Evacuation orders are under level 2. Multiple levels are there to prepare people and give enough time in advance. It also means politicians should be less terrified to use it, as long as they use the full range avaliable. Not everyone will enable all 2-4. It will depend on how many times they are abused and how nasty the sound is for the minor levels... (checks wiki) same for 1-4 seems common... which is an oversight of the standard. EU should correct that, or all phone makers workaround it by adding a third setting for levels 2-4: on, off, on-without-scaring-user.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU-Alert

Spain leans too much into kakistocracy, IMO.

What do you mean? "Everyone crash now"? Makes no sense. "Tried to solve"? There was no collision before.

The situation seems to be that they stopped the trains due to a problem somewhere. When they thought it was solved, they commanded all of them to move again. And when one reported to be unable to do so, they failed to stop those that were around it. Or that is what the leaked conversations suggest. Do not discard this was tactical leaks to blame a scapegoat. The newer system should be running.

I say around, because news mention that a third train could have crashed into the wreckage of the other two. It was moving in the other direction, towards Madrid. Luckly it stopped when the electricity failed. It would have been like the accident early this year, when a train hit other that just had a derailment.

And pretty sure that if some stopped pocketing 3% of public contracts, or whatever amount is now, competition among companies would be better and money would achieve more.

From https://relocoast.com/en/guides/minimum-wage-salary A quarter of the people do not go beyond 18K, another quarter is between that and 25K. Only one quarter make more than 36K.

Before taxes. And VAT is 21%, with some exceptions.

Japan railway crew have stricter procedures when they are alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

The Iryo train was stopped and unable to restart, because it's safety system did not allow that until the signalling issue was corrected. The AVE was commanded to move again like normal (200 Km/h or more). When the Iryo reported to be stuck, all the trains in the line should have been notified to stop once more, or go at line-of-sight speeds (40 Km/h). Both options are bad for delays. Current news is that five minutes after the Iryo call, the AVE rammed its back at 160-200 Km/h.

CEO of Iryo company complained 3 weeks ago about LZB being problematic, their trains taking a long time to recover connection. Safe but old, he said. It should have been replaced by ERTMS by 2024-2026.

Minimum daylight (winter) in Warsaw is 7h 42m [0] and in Madrid 9h 17m [1]. Maximum (summer) is 16h 47m and 15h 4m. That is due to latitude and unavoidable. The exact numbers for sunset and sunrise are pushed around by the TZ choices.

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/poland/warsaw

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/spain/madrid

Life lenght depends on many factors.

Or the clocks are wrong. Once you realize noon is 13h in winter and 14h in summer, never 12h, things start to make sense. Late lunch? Not really, Sun at same height than Italy, but clocks off by 1.

For the "public image" part of the experiment, the conclusion is easy: bad. Time to change clocks so waking up happens at "3h" in the morning, and become a country of hard workers with no nightlife, because everyone retires "early". Even if discos are full as in the past.

No need of having always on connection to the network, enable on emergencies only. Thus no remote hacking of SIM/base band possible at random times, or broadcasting presence until used. Mechanic or user can check battery periodically, replace if low, just like refilling wiper fluid. Car could even cut all other electric systems after deploying the integrated autonomous V16-like system.

Car manufacturers deciding to make their ECall implementations complex and privacy invading was their choice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V16_warning_beacon_lights