Comment by pixl97
19 hours ago
Same information, no.
A person saying you have a green light when you have a red light is not the same information at all. The probability that something has gone wrong and will lead to disaster is many many times higher.
That's also true, but you should also be able to trust written movement authorities, otherwise why have them in the first place?
The right move here would've been to accept the suggestion to drive the train, but not accept the suggestion to drive it at normal speed. The driver should have driven at 40km/h.
It's not a suggestion, it is an order and a movement authority. That would have been nice, but the drivers are not required to make such a decision. The moment you issue a movement authority, you must assume the train operates with the max speed and distance of it immediately, and that must be safe. Train drivers do not decide for the speed and trajectory a train is going to take. They are responsible for that their train drives safely inside the movement authorities given to them, they are not able and hence not responsible to ensure the safety of the network. They are more equivalent to a car mechanic, not to a car driver.
+1 high speed should only be enabled by multiple redundant safety system being operational. Otherwise, it needs to operate at line of sight speeds.
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