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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnions urge Amtrak to put 2nd crew member in locomotives.
The union for Amtrak's locomotive engineers urged the railroad on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls of trains on the busy Northeast Corridor, where a derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
"The public would never accept an airline operation with a single person in the cockpit," the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said in a statement. "There is no reason that rail employees and rail passengers' lives should be viewed any differently."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/789e8f23c93245f49559bd657fdbb3a3/investigators-uncertain-anything-hit-train-derailment
I love riding the trains. With a ticket, that is. Yup, I'm all for a co-pilot.
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Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Planes operate on GPS and autopilot can take you to where you need to go.
I would think it should be easy enough to program a route for the train and don't allow the conductor to exceed the speed limits. On a normal route the conductor wouldn't do a thing but would still be there for an emergency.
elleng
(130,923 posts)like cattle, cars, etc., on the track, to enable pure GPS, I think.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Let's start with that.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)in the early days of the labor movement. Especially for the UMW.