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How about the dickhead driver doing 50 in a 12. .........
Wanker unions will probably go on strike in support of the speeding driver who clearly thought he was Michael Schumacher in tram world.
He he is gong to jail and it's gonna cost millions!
There is a device which the driver is required to hold to establish they are conscious, I understand - which if they are not effectively stops the tram.
The 'Black Box' suggests he applied the brakes prior to the bend - but not enough to reduce the speed sufficiently.
It seems to me that the driver was at the very least, reckless....
They have a "Dead Man's Handle" on the Tube as well. The difference is that in slow speed areas on the Tube, the signals don't clear unless the train is under a set speed. If they go through a red signal then the emergency brakes are applied automatically. After the Moorgate crash in 1975, which killed 43 people, they were not sure whether the driver had a medical condition, or had committed suicide, but they put in controls to make something like that impossible in the future. In this day and age, controls like that should be in place on any train or tram line.
As a Croydon resident I have used the tram often and can attest that that curve is extremely tight, and was alarmed to see tweets from the week before where people said about that curve being taken too quickly and it feeling like wheels were leaving the track. I wonder if some of the drivers were using it like a roller coaster.
Of course the driver would say I blacked out or fell asleep rather than I was being a pratt.
Detectives investigating the tragic incident are said to be going through his phone records after it was claimed he was typing a text at the time some news outlets have reported.
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At the moment, I'm not sure if the public would like to go on a train with no human in charge of it.
Once driverless cars are here then public opinion will change.
There are loads of successful fully-driverless systems already working.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_subway_systems
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Either have the driver driving the thing, or don't. But these days a bloke in the cab is neither cost efficient OR safer, so the only reasons to keep him is public perception (which can be sorted with careful PR demonstrating the stats on safety) and the issue of what we do with all the humans once robots have taken over all the menial jobs (which goes FAR beyond rail networks and shouldn't be an issue for the rail people to solve by themselves)
A lot of lines on LU are already automatically operated, and the rest will be inside of 15 years unless Sadiq Khan's fares freeze hits the finances too hard.
It is the issue of having no-one on board that is currently contentious. The unions would insist that someone needs to be on board for safety in an emergency situation. The last I saw on this was that most of the public agreed with them. As I said above, public opinion is likely to change when driverless cars become commonplace.
If you could get rid of the drivers then you could probably save around £300 million per year on LU's running costs - although you might lose some of that by needing extra staff on platforms.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The traffic won't let them go stupidly fast, but the way a lot of them drive is awful.
He said the only time he's known it happen is when some numpty has told a newbie to take a double-decker because the usual single-deckers have gone u/s.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ladroke-grove-crash-woman-left-trapped-under-bus-after-it-swerved-onto-pavement-a3398256.html
A substantial number of speed restrictions on the main line railway have nothing at all except an advance warning board to prevent over speeding. If the required reduction in speed is 30% or more then the warning board has AWS but this is essentially a reminder system and only acts if it is ignored. Once acknowledged the train speed is solely down to the driver. Some speed restrictions have TPWS which will put the brakes in if the speed is excessive and a couple of routes have ATP which will do the same. However for the vast majority of speed limits the main line railway relies on the driver knowing the line inside out and regulating the train speed accordingly. Those that wonder why on earth they get paid so much might like to reflect on that.