I feel that whenever I read the news. Imagine shopping with your family at a mall/going to school/going to a concert then a crazy storms in and starts shooting/driving into the crowd and everyone dies.
And of course awful things like this never happens to piece of shit lowlives or their family members, always the ones who never did anything bad in their lives or even to children.
“We were stopped at the station, the doors were still open, and we saw the crane hit, ‘boom!'” he told reporters.
Emphasizing again that the train was stopped at the station, and describing the astonishment of passengers witnessing the crane hitting the tracks in a cloud of smoke, he then describes the shocked realization dawning on the passengers as the doors begin to close and the train starts to move forward.
“The doors on the train start closing, and the guy on the side’s going no, no, no, don’t go.”
“But the train starts moving anyway, and we drove right into the wreckage.”
“So for whatever reason, the train was stopped when we saw the accident. The train was stopped but the train started going anyway… for whatever reason, I don’t know. I’m not from here.”
We don’t have AI. We have predictive algorithms.
She’s probably done. Whenever there’s the slightest possibility to blame train stuff for a train accident, train companies and governments go all in.
I bet they are instructed to keep that key “safe” in the bag instead of hanging from their necks, or in a quick release in their belts.
Don’t be ridiculous. They are not blaming her.
Give them time.
They are indicting those operating the crane and investigating the company. Please be more informed.
I don’t really agree, automated ssytems have elminated lots of driver error situations, the issue we have at the moment is that aupervisors usually don’t step in fast enough because they are not sure what the ‘machine’ is doing so prefer to leave it alone.
There was an airbus a few years ago with a fuel leak, the computer said ‘fuel imblance’ so the pilots decided to level the imbalance up but pumping fuel from the good tank to the leaking one not realising the reason behind the imbalance. I think they ended up gliding the plane for more than 50 miles to the middle of nowhere to land.
The article I linked above says the accident was unavoidable as the attendant “only” had 13 seconds to react. Appears that’s the official MRT company narrative.
They’ll blame the construction company.
Yeah you should walk/run everywhere you go. Also helps with your regimen.
Sure, they’ll fine the construction company, which will pay with the cash it has in its pockets. Maybe a lower level worker will loose their job too.
Additionally might be on the hook for damaged train.
The two-car train damaged in the accident, which cost NT$200 million, will be sent to the manufacturer to determine whether it can be repaired or needs to be replaced as part of the MRT’s 18-train fleet
Did the professor who was at the front not notice the crane? Was she not warned by others to stand back or hold tight to a pole or something? Was sure looking at her phone all the time?
A 52-year-old woman identified as Dr. Lin Shu-ya (林淑雅), a law professor at Providence University, became trapped under the carriage when the accident occurred and died from head trauma.
Was flung out of the train by impact
Yeah is strange , there are many Red button that anyone can mash
source:
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/taichung-public-transport.1801834/page-2
There no doubt are a number of big red buttons, the Q would be a) why did no a single person use one, b) why did the atendant decide to try to use a key and stop the train that way instead of mashing the button. I suspect they have been drilled and drilled with ‘This is how you stop a train and drive it if need be’ and so she has been trained to ‘not use’ the big red button.
A few years ago I watched a van drive off the side of the road into a tree, after thinking about it for a few seconds the next thing I did was ask the person next to me, did that really happen. Only after 15-20 seconds did we think ‘Oh we really ought to do something about it’. The fact was it was such an unusual event we had to believe it was happening first and then think about what to do afterwards.
A three-ton crane falling on the tracks. There has to be an automatic shutdown of the system, especially because the trains are driverless. It’s mind-boggling that a brand-new system is not prepared for that kind of scenario. Don’t they stop automatically when the earth shakes? No way that elevated track did not shake violently for sensors to be triggered. The fact that the system is up and running again is unbelievable. They should not be operating until that apparent flaw is fixed.
Dr Lin Shuya was apparently a beloved professor of law, a former Chair of Amnesty International Taiwan, and an ardent supporter of Indigenous rights. Reports are coming in about how students viewed her [in Chinese; my apologies for this]:
I have also read that she was behind the amazing open letter entitled “Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan to President Xi Jinping of China” in early 2019, though I am unable to confirm it, and I will edit this part if I am mistaken—corrections are welcome.
EDIT: Professor Lin was reportedly also a member of the Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee (not to be confused with the Transitional Justice Commission which recently wrapped up its work), although I am unable to find her name listed on that organization’s website.
Professor Lin, RIP.
Guy
What if it turns out she was really assassinated by china using the accident as a cover? Kinda conspiracy and all that
