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Senators: FRA to mandate in-cab cameras
The cameras seem to be a case of ‘closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped’! It will not keep an accident from occuring but will help fix blame after an accident occurs. It does allow the Senators to claim they have done something but I am not sure it will help or not.
The cameras seem to be a case of ‘closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped’! It will not keep an accident from occuring but will help fix blame after an accident occurs. It does allow the Senators to claim they have done something but I am not sure it will help or not.
The cameras seem to be a case of ‘closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped’! It will not keep an accident from occuring but will help fix blame after an accident occurs. It does allow the Senators to claim they have done something but I am not sure it will help or not.
The cameras seem to be a case of ‘closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped’! It will not keep an accident from occuring but will help fix blame after an accident occurs. It does allow the Senators to claim they have done something but I am not sure it will help or not.
The cameras seem to be a case of ‘closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped’! It will not keep an accident from occuring but will help fix blame after an accident occurs. It does allow the Senators to claim they have done something but I am not sure it will help or not.
Unless someone, somewhere is monitoring the images from the camera in real time it is not a safety device; it is a tool for gathering evidence.
I like the idea of recent limited record saving as suggested by LARRY A MATUS.
I’m sorry. I cannot support this concept. Forward and even backward facing on
each side maybe ok…in fact are. But one monitoring the sighs, the scratches,
the farting, whatever, will not solve anything and in fact could lower the
quality of work being performed. Performing for the camera is not far fetched
and could therefore leave out important acts because of self consciousness. Then
there will be the resentment by the subject. Use the cameras to help the
engineer do his job, to defend the engineer when things go wrong. but not to
collar and pre conclude the engineer did something wrong.
What is going to happen. When the cameras fail? Will that shut the train down? Failure could be as simple as someone hanging their coat in the wring place.
Installing inward facing cameras solves nothing. It is obvious the train operator was in violation of the government regulations which limit how long a train operator may remain on duty between rest breaks. The real solution would be to clamp down on management, which in this case, forced the employee to operate in that situation. But don’t look for that to happen any time soon because in this instance, it is a commuter railroad. And who runs the commuter railroads? That’s right. Big government, which is now doing everything possible to provide cover for itself. You can always count on the socialists like Blumenthal and Schumer to provide that cover because in the long run, there is a kickback in it for them in the form of future votes from the zombie voters.
Vasyl, good to know you still hate truck drivers and you still never took time to learn the ancient Germanic languages. By the way, did you eat today? Last time I checked, at several points in the supply chain, that food moved by truck. Trains don’t go to farmers fields and grocery stores don’t have railroad docks. In fact, even the grocery store warehouses, many food processing plants, and many food storage warehouses are lacking in railroad dock space.
We have inward/outward camers installed in all of our cruisers. It is constantly recording only video on a 30-second loop. When the light bar is activated in captures that 30 seconds along with the now live video and audio. There has to be a way to do the same for a locomotive, such as emergency brake application, sudden impact or derailment. This way the cameras are there but will only activate when something unusual happens and also capture 30 or 60 seconds prior.
I agree with the folks who say this isn’t a safety device. It’s a device for letting the politicians claim they’ve done something. It’s got the side effect of handing management a convenient tool for prosecuting train crews, although a short-loop approach like the one Mr. Matus describes would at least help focus the tool on real incidents.
If Sen. Blumenthal really expects “no hassle from the railroad workers’ union”, either he’s nuts or he has some kind of dirt on the union leadership to make them shut up. The KCS crews aren’t exactly unique in their distrust of management.
Perhaps it should be mandatory that each member of congress have a camera recording them at all times too.
Mr Carleton has it exactly right!
This makes absolutely no sense. It merely provides evidence for potential prosecution. Safety? Not a chance. An invasion of privacy? Absolutely.
Our “socialist government” should mandate that all truck cabs have inward facing cameras. Gooshie’s truck should be the first!!!
Can’t they use split-screen tech to record both in-, and-outboard video with the same camera? Charles “Chuck-the-Schmuck” Schumer never misses a photo-op, or press conference. Does Blumenthal own Sony stock? Maybe Schneider, or JB Hunt, could install ‘inward-facing’ cameras. That might be “X”-rated, but fun, especially in the truck stop parking lots!
Vasly, hopefully the camera in Goosie’s truck cab will record his digging a huge greeny out of his shot locker.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how far the government has gone to regulate railroads. Why stop there? Planes don’t have inward facing cameras. Neither do automobiles. The reason for these problems is that railroads are vastly over regulated by people who have no idea how the industry works. The only things most politicians (and most Americans in general) know about trains is the crap that the media feeds them. Railroads’ safety record, per passenger/freight mile, is comparable to major airlines, which are about 1000x safer than cars. In the US, an average of 35,000-40,000 people die annually in car accidents per year, yet the government doesn’t seem to be imposing regulations such as inward facing cameras in cars. If that many people died on planes or railroads per year, there would be no more trains or planes because they would be shut down by the government. As a side note, how would a camera have helped in preventing the Metro North derailment? It’s not like a camera can sense when people are sleeping and wake them up. It’s stupid. Over regulation by people who know nothing about trains. It’s that simple. I can even blame the railroads to an extent as they haven’t put enough into educating the general public on how vital trains are to our economy and how safe they are. If they did, maybe public perceptions of the railroads would be better.