Mordac
Established Member
Okay, so what I'm about to write may be quite silly for those in the know, but it's been bugging me and I want to ask anyway, running the risk of mickey taking.
The reason why IC225s and Pendos can't run at 140mph is because it's supposedly dangerous to do so without in-cab signalling. My question is, wouldn't it be relatively cheap and simple to modify AWS to provide this by adding an extra magnet at each instance, so that there were four possible states (2x2) and so information about aspect could be conveyed to the driver (say all magnets off is green, front on and rear off is double yellow, front off and rear on is single yellow, all on is red). Was this ever considered?
The reason why IC225s and Pendos can't run at 140mph is because it's supposedly dangerous to do so without in-cab signalling. My question is, wouldn't it be relatively cheap and simple to modify AWS to provide this by adding an extra magnet at each instance, so that there were four possible states (2x2) and so information about aspect could be conveyed to the driver (say all magnets off is green, front on and rear off is double yellow, front off and rear on is single yellow, all on is red). Was this ever considered?