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[quote user="wabash1"] <p>it never will work for these reasons</p><p>1) You can not get a depth perception ( or lack oF ) to a coupling and if your coupling who would be there to connect the hoses</p><p>2) who going to hang this device and if its a person hanging this device why put money into somethng to replace a human when it cant do human work.</p><p>3) at crossing you can not get a wide angle lens to see up the road clearly like a human can, so looking 1 block up both sides of the road a camera cant do this. </p><p>4) the only time you have to shove is work trains and locals yard jobs and these need men to switch. road jobs have no reason to shove that far and a engineer is looking at the ground or at other fixed points to judge speed and distance a monitor is only going to take his eyes and attention off his job, </p><p>5) cost who is going to pay for the equipment and who is going to be resposible for it. we dont remove eots so who going to pull all of this junk and tote it around</p><p> </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Bear in mind, my idea <u>wasn't to replace the human presence</u> during movements, only to provide an <u>additional</u> level of visibility. I was thinking more along the lines of a safety enhancement to help the engineer verify the conductor is not in the way before a shove is started (I was thinking back to the horrible story we heard in safety class at the B&SV about misinterpretted radio communications in Mason City causing the death of a CNW conductor).</p>
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