notadriver
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Why can't the unions do anything to stop the installation of cameras ? If they tried it here in the UK they would definitely fail.
Planes don't have inwards facing cameras. Why should trains ?
Why can't the unions do anything to stop the installation of cameras ? If they tried it here in the UK they would definitely fail.
The political pressure is just too great.
The NTSB wants these cameras for forensic purposes in the future. The fact that the engineer remembers nothing from North Philadelphia to the site of the derailment makes their case fairly strong.
I think have proper overspeed protection for sharp curves is the answer and not cameras. Cameras wont prevent a reoccurance. There is no way such an incident could have happened in the UK as all curves on the main line have overspeed protection devices.
Don't know one way or the other I think?
The problem with this quote is that it completely ignores the fact that incidents and investigations are actually the main method by which rail transport gets safer.
If in-cab cameras can help a post-incident investigation pick up a problem which might otherwise have gone undetected (remember, major investigations always have more than one recommendation coming out of them) or even lead to a problem getting detected before it results in a major incident, they will help those safety improvements come earlier and easier.
If you have money to spend on improving safety (Amtrak doesn't have much to spare, and it's 20,000 USD per locomotive to install the cameras), surely it's better to spend it on things like better/more comprehensive speed enforcement systems ?
Mr. Boardman said installation would cost about $20,000 for each locomotive, or about $1.4 million for all those that Amtrak plans to equip by the end of the year.
. . . it's the 70 modern ACS-64 electrics he's talking about, which apparently already have some provision for the cameras.
Phone or no phone; that driver went too fast through the curve!