Journal mercedo's Journal: Train Crash 2
I am not surprised to hear the news. In the society where no mistake can be allowed, where punctuality matters prior to everything, where strict working standard and diciplinary behaviour are prior to everything.
Oftentimes, we have to deal with the serious matter by oneselves when we need more people to keep the system properly, where safety we have to keep is subject to being ignorant far behind the cost-effectiveness, basically we individual workers tend to have too much burden to keep systems work properly at the expense of our personal pleasure through a total dedication to our job, manytimes overworkingly.
As far as such ideas are dyed in the wool in this society, we cannot expect to free from all the fears. We have to make a society where some amount of malfunction can be allowed,
Well, it's supposed to be that way. (Score:2)
You didn't identify which train crash. It's hard to know which one you're referring to. I had to look it up, it's a crash in Japan [cnn.com].
Japan has a whole lot of problems, but the first point I can agree with, at least with respect to operating very complicated public transport, we can't allow mista
Re:Well, it's supposed to be that way. (Score:1)
Sorry for not mentioning. Right. That's the one.
we do allow for it. That's why there's usually safety systems on railroads to cover for mistakes.
Here lies our lethal problem. Apart from human error the driver mistakenly made, there had to be several apparatuses to prevent a derailment. In the case of highly reputable bullet train, ATS (automatic train stopper), which automatically have the train stop when it exceeds the speed limit and when it comes near to c