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Re: Camera's work, and save a lot of money in other ways, too....
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-06-2021 - 01:03
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > HOWEVER, from the Class 1's lawyers perspectives
> PTC is absolutely mandatory as a critical piece of
> CYA hardware as if ANYTHING should go wrong (
> derailment, grade crossing accident, trespasser
> fatality etc., etc. ) they'll be able to show the
> jury that the railroad did everything possible to
> equip it's locomotives with the latest and best
> safety equipment.
>
> PTC has nothing to do with grade crossings, but
> nose cameras do. Have you heard of any grade
> crossing lawsuits in the last 10 years? And this
> is not to mention event recorders which keep track
> of headlight illumination levels, bell status,
> horn blowing, etc., etc. Event recorders predate
> PTC by at lease two decades.
Camera's have not stopped grade crossing lawsuits, but nuisance settlements and easy payouts are a thing of the past, at many RR"s and Rail Transit operators from grade crossing accidents because of cameras, on trains and at crossings.
Several "rings" of "train chasers" who showed up at accidents to become "professional witnesses" to the "gates didnt' come down" have even been jailed, because of cameras.
An ITS transit project I managed a few years back even managed to cut accident lawsuits for bus collisions (and "faked" bus collisions...), as well as from passenger "slip and falls" boarding buses, with forward, rear, and side facing cameras (in additon to the interior facing cameras that are firing drugged, drunk, and/or cell using operators, as well as helping Keanu Reeves to keep Sandra Bullock safe from Dennis Hopper...).
But, one real unanticipated benefit of the inward faciing bus passenger camera's to prevent crime, was the reduction in graffiti on buses, and the rate of replacement of etched windows on school "trippers".... Nothing like "junior's" beautiful face to show the parents, when you have them into the Vice Principal's office to suspend their little darling's bus pass for the rest of the school year, and the transit police get to present Mom and Dad with a bill for the damaged bus windows...
Now, who was it that didn't predict that PTC would lead to further rail operational automation, right here on AP....?
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> > HOWEVER, from the Class 1's lawyers perspectives
> PTC is absolutely mandatory as a critical piece of
> CYA hardware as if ANYTHING should go wrong (
> derailment, grade crossing accident, trespasser
> fatality etc., etc. ) they'll be able to show the
> jury that the railroad did everything possible to
> equip it's locomotives with the latest and best
> safety equipment.
>
> PTC has nothing to do with grade crossings, but
> nose cameras do. Have you heard of any grade
> crossing lawsuits in the last 10 years? And this
> is not to mention event recorders which keep track
> of headlight illumination levels, bell status,
> horn blowing, etc., etc. Event recorders predate
> PTC by at lease two decades.
Camera's have not stopped grade crossing lawsuits, but nuisance settlements and easy payouts are a thing of the past, at many RR"s and Rail Transit operators from grade crossing accidents because of cameras, on trains and at crossings.
Several "rings" of "train chasers" who showed up at accidents to become "professional witnesses" to the "gates didnt' come down" have even been jailed, because of cameras.
An ITS transit project I managed a few years back even managed to cut accident lawsuits for bus collisions (and "faked" bus collisions...), as well as from passenger "slip and falls" boarding buses, with forward, rear, and side facing cameras (in additon to the interior facing cameras that are firing drugged, drunk, and/or cell using operators, as well as helping Keanu Reeves to keep Sandra Bullock safe from Dennis Hopper...).
But, one real unanticipated benefit of the inward faciing bus passenger camera's to prevent crime, was the reduction in graffiti on buses, and the rate of replacement of etched windows on school "trippers".... Nothing like "junior's" beautiful face to show the parents, when you have them into the Vice Principal's office to suspend their little darling's bus pass for the rest of the school year, and the transit police get to present Mom and Dad with a bill for the damaged bus windows...
Now, who was it that didn't predict that PTC would lead to further rail operational automation, right here on AP....?
