"Crash-resistant" train cars- really? Is this the cartoons come to life?

Metrolink To Use "New High-Tech, Crash-Resistant Cars."

The Los Angeles Times (12/18, Connell) reports, "Nearly five years after a deadly Metrolink train wreck in Glendale intensified debate about passenger car design," the commuter rail service in Southern California "will soon take delivery of new high-tech, crash-resistant cars," according to officials. Two of the cars, "the first of their kind in the nation, are to be unloaded from a ship in the Port of Long Beach in mid-January and will be put into service as early as next summer." They "have energy-absorbing ends designed to distribute the force of train-on-train collisions. Other features include breakaway interior tables."