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[quote user="Railway Man"] [quote user="Ulrich"] At the very core on board cameras and Postive Train Control are a vote of nonconfidence in the people who run the trains. In essence the people who are pushing cameras and PTC as well as other technology are saying that they need this so that a serious accident can be averted in the event the crew is asleep, drunk, stoned, or simply "makes a mistake".  They understand that every railroader can't be a professional and so the railroad career will be dumbed down to become a McJob that annyone can do. This accident only makes the case for dumbing down the job that much stronger...In 5 or 10 years it really won't matter as much if the on board people are pros or not becuase they really won't be expected to be... [/quote]  On-board cameras are a means of laying off risk onto the train crew.  They incent the crew to perform better, because if something goes wrong, there will be less equivocation about cause, and if cause can be better established to be the fault of the crew, then there a stronger case for the railway not to shoulder the full liability.  But in and of itself, the camera does nothing to prevent an accident, and it doesn't automate anything. PTC is a method of eliminating single-point failure.   Does PTC enable greater automation and less requirement for skill, knowledge, and experience on the part of the train crew?  Absolutely. RWM [/quote] Are we talking about on-board cameras that watch the track ahead, but not the crew, or are we talking about cameras that watch the crew?  I am not advocating on-board cameras watching the crew, but would they not add a measure of rules compliance?  Is it not probable that Sanchez would have refrained from text messaging if he knew a camera was watching him?
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