Partly because it’s in English, but also because I think Europeans on average know that a one-off event like this isn’t a pattern, but I think Americans, who have zero high speed trains, are often blind to car deaths and might get spooked by something scary sounding that involves a train they don’t have.
I’m not trying to convince the Spanish of anything, they already have a train.
Before people freak out and say “Wow, I guess we shouldn’t trust trains”, in Q1 of 2026, 90 days, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported 7770 people died from cars in the US. That’s an average of 86 people a day, every day, from cars. And they considered that a good number, because it was down 4% from other quarters!
So yes, this is a tragedy. But it’s also a rare occurrence that probably killed fewer people than October 28th alone did on the streets of car central.
It could be the case that there is some “mega engineer” that is important enough to have access to enough credentials to be able to put this together. Probably you could build around any one person having access like that, but some combination of people need to have keys somewhere.
But “DevOps Engineer” doesn’t sound like the person who should have access to the root pursestrings…