Twice today The Age has posted ragebait and misleading headlines which it then updates later on. The most recent is this one:
"Video of train hitting car at Brunswick shows boom gate lift as fail-safe", which was originally published as "Video of train hitting car at Brunswick shows boom gate lifting ahead of crash".
The original headline implies that the boom gate lifted incorrectly to let the car through, where the boom gate actually lifted when struck by the advancing car. Pure misleading reporting and misleading editorialising of the headline.
This morning, the article "A bush camping holiday with a runabout city EV? It can be done" was originally posted as "After a disastrous camping trip in our EV, these are the lessons I learnt".
Am I foolish to expect better?
Posted by fortyfivesouth
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They don’t really understand what the word failsafe means do they? Who would ever think that a boom gate lifting up in the case of failure is safe? “Guys, if the power to this boom gate is cut off we should make it lift up so that cars can drive onto the tracks in front of trains”. “Yeah good idea, we wouldn’t want the cars having to stop just because they might get hit by a train.”
Your first mistake was willingly looking at a The age article