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Tefal said:
is there anything a train driver can actually do to prevent an accident?


like say car on the line, small child, ww2 panzer tank flying a pirate flag, can they actually stop in time from the point they see it?

cause i always thought thier stopping distance was well beyond thier visual range in most cases?
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In many scenarios I doubt they can do very much, same can be said for many truck related accident scenarios too, the weight and momentum - especially in the event of some kind of mechanical failure such as the likely scenario in Bath this week - makes both drivers something of a passenger in such events unfortunately.

It's a legal requirement of truckers to do a vehicle inspection at the start of their shift too, how much more in depth the train drivers inspection is other than visual I'd like to know..
 
Tefal said:
thats what i mean standard cruising speed o na line, unexpected thing on track is there really any chance?
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There is no standard cruising speed as such but train drivers will able to stop by emergency brake application whilst either accelerating or decelerating to a certain extent.
 
Scania said:
It's a legal requirement of truckers to do a vehicle inspection at the start of their shift too, how much more in depth the train drivers inspection is other than visual I'd like to know..
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That's what the technicians at the depot are for that check the vehicles before every shift, I'd imagine.
 
John40 said:
Blimey you'd have thought he'd have had more sense than to throw wife beating accusations around.
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I think it is possible that you might not know what he was referring to.

"Have you stopped beating your wife" is actually an example of a "Trick Lawyer" question that is impossible to answer (Yes or no) without making you appear to be a wife beater.

Hedley, by posing this question, was clearly accusing Ferrari of asking politically biased interview questions in such a way that might make them similarly difficult to answer. Not that Ferrari was a wife-beater as such.

Hedley may well not have handled the situation particularly well, but at the same time, knowing how radio/tv interviewers actually operate, he may nevertheless have had a point. :/
 
Orionaut said:
Hedley, by posing this question, was clearly accusing Ferrari of asking politically biased interview questions in such a way that might make them similarly difficult to answer
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It's not clear though - first thoughts of pretty much everyone is this guy is a bell.
 
Orionaut said:
I think it is possible that you might not know what he was referring to.

"Have you stopped beating your wife" is actually an example of a "Trick Lawyer" question that is impossible to answer (Yes or no) without making you appear to be a wife beater.
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"i have never beaten my wife what are you on about you loon"

would be the usual response i imagine.
 
aardvark said:
wow, what a scumbag.
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no, he is a union leader, representing the plight of his borthers, how dare you call him a scumbag just because he beat the ever loving **** out of his girlfriend, Amigafan2003 will be here in a minute to tell us it is all a witch hunt and that the union should ballot the right for their leaders to beat up their women as it is there democratic right as a union to do what ever the hell they want even when their members are wrong.
 
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