Comment by sznio
16 hours ago
> Not sure how to actually solve this…
fix the alarms? I only had one false fire alarm in my life. and thankfully zero real ones. it's possible.
do fire drills? if alarms get ignored, and you can't reduce the false-positive rate, then introduce fake alarms and monitor the response?
Then what? In this case, Suspend the train engineer? The company itself is incentivized to ignore the warnings to keep things on track.
(...on track)
A really important strike that Spanish pilots should do, is striking by respecting the red lights and refusing oral overrides. Hours of delays the first day, trains at the wrong place in the evening, we'd see exactly which regions are affected, and either we agree to repair things or we just leave trains to rot at the red lights rather than risking 900 people's life again (x2 trains = 1800).
Ultimately red signals due not fall from the sky. They are controlled by the same people that issue oral or written movement authorities. So focusing on just the oral movement authorities doesn't address the real problem. In the end it is the same signal in a different medium.