Its sounding like there was a brake malfunction. The lead car of the trailing train (as I understand it) was 2 months late for brake maintenance. There may also have been some operator error, but that's still very theoretical. A lack of brakes would pretty much negate the software AND a fully attentive driver if they were going too fast on a curve.
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