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Re: OT: Muppets

From Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: OT: Muppets
Date 2017-12-19 15:56 -0800
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On 2017-12-19 15:46, rickman wrote:
> Joerg wrote on 12/19/2017 6:01 PM:
>> On 2017-12-19 04:00, bitrex wrote:
>>> <https://jalopnik.com/what-causes-amtrak-trains-to-derail-1821404755>
>>>
>>> $800 million spent on the project you'd think they could spend a few
>>> bucks on a crew that knew how to slow down going around a curve.
>>>
>>
>> The really sad news is that the technology to avoid this has been
>> around and
>> successfully used in Germany since before World War II. They call it
>> Inductive Train Safeguarding or Indusi. That slows down and even brings
>> trains to a full stop, overriding an offending operator. It is not rocket
>> science.
>>
>> Yet we have all those so-called "licensed engineers" who are supposed to
>> "safeguard the public" and blah-blah, then fail on the simplest and most
>> obvious points. They should never have signed and stamped such "system"
>> designs. Yet they did and that has killed people over and over again.
>
> The DC metro was fully automated until the accident that killed nine
> people by a train hitting a stopped train that wasn't seen by the
> system.


Did they ever find out why the system did not register the stopped train?


   One of the nine was the operator who didn't put on the brakes
> until the train was less than 500 feet from the back of the other
> train.  I didn't follow the series of Post articles to find out how much
> sooner she could have seen the stopped train.  One train should never
> see another, stopped or not.
>

That is one of the accidents that the German Indusi system prevents. It 
disects pretty much their whole rail system into blocks. A train will 
not be allowed to enter a block in which another train is present, 
moving or not. If the operator won't apply the brakes in time the Indusi 
system overrides. I believe nowadays that event is being recorded and 
the operator would be required to do some explaining.

It is not 100% fail-safe and there are some lonely single-line sections 
without this automation but it would have prevented most of the serious 
train wrecks we had in the US.


> I recall riding the subway and looking up the tunnel I could just see
> the tail of a train that left the station and was preventing the next
> train from coming to pick us up.
>

Subways often have good automation in the US. It's the railroads that 
are on Flintstonian technology.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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  Re: OT: Muppets amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-19 08:37 -0600
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      Re: OT: Muppets bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-19 10:00 -0500
    Re: OT: Muppets bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-19 09:56 -0500
    Re: OT: Muppets John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-19 08:53 -0800
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        Re: OT: Muppets whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> - 2017-12-19 14:27 -0800
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          Re: OT: Muppets John Larkin <jjlarkin@highland_snip_technology.com> - 2017-12-20 10:08 -0800
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      Re: Muppets bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-19 18:26 -0500
  Re: OT: Muppets Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-19 15:01 -0800
    Re: OT: Muppets rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-12-19 18:46 -0500
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