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Well I'm about to purchase a hotel on Park Lane ......
Reading up from the bottom right, shouldn't that read quick, quick, slow?
Does anyone really need to travel so fast?
allegedly doing 190 km/h in a 80 km/h limit....
Is there not the technology available now to limit the maximum speed of a train, dependent on its position on the track and override the driver?
Sometimes, the more technology you have taking care of what you should be doing, the more you have to go wrong and the less likely you are to spot it when it's not working...
True, but a piece of technology preventing you from exceeding the speed limit wouldn't require any additional thought for the driver, quite the contrary in fact as it would allow him/her to concentrate on other things.
That's certainly what I've found since I've been driving a car that is equipped with a speed limiter as part of the cruise control system.
It's swings and roundabouts - though, generally positive, of course. Few modern drivers would cope with an old car with a choke, no synchromesh, cross-ply tyres, no power-steering and piss-poor brakes.
But, it might equally be possible to rely on a speed-limiter set at, say, 60 and find yourself in a sneaky 30...
Using GPS technology would make that impossible, as the limiter would be set automatically based on position, the driver would have no input. Obviously the driver always has the option of 'lifting off' should circumstances dictate that the maximum speed limit is not safe for whatever reason.
Easily done...
Is there not the technology available now to limit the maximum speed of a train, dependent on its position on the track and override the driver?
Using GPS technology would make that impossible, as the limiter would be set automatically based on position, the driver would have no input. Obviously the driver always has the option of 'lifting off' should circumstances dictate that the maximum speed limit is not safe for whatever reason.
a loco driver did SPAD spectacularly at Stafford not long back and was going significantly faster than he should have been, with a loco that had faults on it, didn't have the up to date route knowledge all of which ended up in approaching the signal at high speed followed by brown trousers heavy braking and passing the signal.
"Lifting off" isn't quite the same in a train!!
Why is that HC? Is it incompatible with our present rail network? Are there downsides to it?