Imagine somebody just invented the steam engine (see what I did there?) and people are worried it might derail or explode. It's due to arrive at the station at 3pm and at 4pm there's no sign of it.
If you're just a traveler on the platform you're going to worry that any number of terrible things have happened.
This post is the train finally arriving at the station, and the conductor announcing that somebody pulled on the emergency brake, which did what it was designed to do and brought the train to a screeching halt.
Most of the delay was the investigation by the engineers as they made sure they'd thoroughly investigated the cause of the problem, and double checked the timetable to make sure that restarting after the delay wouldn't put the engine on a collision course with any other trains.
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Hey, @mattclarke.
I have no problem with everything that occurred the moment the bug/bugs came to play. I'm good with all that.
I'm more concerned with what happened to cause the emergency brake (ie the bugs). I'm understanding that it's impossible to account for every instance of why the brake might be pulled. Right now there aren't that many trains out there, at least not running the same length of track, nor are that many people waiting for the train, so the inconveniences might not be so bad.
Soon, however, we're hoping for many more people to be at the station waiting for the train to arrive (ie velocity), and we're anticipating that there will be many more trains providing service on that stretch of track (ie SMTs, entire industries). We're also understanding there will be other track built and trains on them (competitors) that will take away customers if we can't provide on time service all the time.
The one that's going to be able to get the most people from and to their destinations on time is going to be the one which stands.