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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Death Note] What would happen if you wrote the name and cause of death of an operator of a vehicle with passengers, such that the passengers would die if the operator died?

I forgot exactly where, but a while back I had a disagreement about this with someone, and we were both 100% sure of ourselves.

I remember the rules that concerned this scenario:

1) If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.

10) Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident, if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not influenced.

26) Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim's cause of death will be a heart attack.

55) In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart attack.

The other person was convinced that the operator would die of a heart attack (during the operation of the vehicle), and if other people died because of it, so be it. When I pointed out the rule regarding not affecting others, he said that it wasn't as important for some reason. He claimed that rule 10 would supersede rule 26 because it's higher up on the list of rules. (???)

I reasoned that the likely scenario would be that the person would die of a heart attack *after* ceasing operation of the vehicle and the passengers disembarking safely. Naturally, so that the operator's death would not affect others. I know this isn't absolute when interpreting the rules, but I think it makes more sense than just throwing one rule out altogether.

He said I was making stuff up and called me an idiot(now that I think about it, it may have been on Reddit).

But now I'm curious to see what others think.
gpt
The death note has never done anything beyond what is written on the note itself. Most trains have both a assistant train operator and dead man switch, so a dead operator wouldn't doom the entire train to begin with.