CRUISE SHIP DURING TSUNAMI
1959 v. 2009 CAR CRASH
Sunday, May 1, 2011
I feel so much safer, cont'd
They're chanting "U.S.A." at the Phillies game. God help our sick country -- maybe Hillary will bring his head to Washington on a stick. Take it on the Oprah show.
More on MAX
And those types of bikes were not even allowed on MAX in the first place, so this is looking more and more like the man's own fault rather than TriMet's (or the operator's) fault.
Apparent suicide mission in Fukushima
Tokyo Electric says they are sending workers into damaged Fukushima reactor no. 1 today for the first time since the March 11 tsunami and ensuing explosion of that plant. The radiation levels in that reactor building are so high that until now, they've only dared to send robots in.
BoJack
Great idea, isn't it?
BoJack
Great idea, isn't it?
Here we go again...
TriMet investigates MAX separation of father and 2-year-old
The first question that should be addressed is what type of train was this? Was it a type 4 train? If it was, that could've contributed to this incident occurring because those cameras they have on the trains can be quite unreliable, I've heard, and that might have been why the operator did not see what was going on.
Second, the father did have some responsibility in this happening because he had a bike trailer he was loading into the train as well as the bike itself, so he was partially at fault.
Those door buttons never work. I never have seen them work. I've tried using them before to no avail, so Bekki Witt was wrong about that. They can work, but only if the train's doors are released, so they must not have been.
Obviously, the operator is at fault a little here. I will be following up with this to see what else is found out about this, but I feel that if the operator had checked the mirrors (or cameras in the type 4 trains) this could've been prevented. But also, we have to keep in mind human error. This hasn't happened since November of 2009 and every day there are chances of this happening. Unless the operator's vision was obstructed and they could not see the father loading his bike because of that, I would rule this out as simple human error.
Also, if when the operator checked his mirrors (or cameras), and they only saw the father standing on the platform with his bike, they could've thought he wasn't boarding the train or simply waiting for the next one. This would also just be pure human error. You can't prevent human error. Things happen.
If it comes to TriMet deciding whether to fire the operator or not, I think they shouldn't. Even if it is shown that the operator was mostly at fault, this hasn't happened for over two years, and was just a mistake. A foolish one at that, but a mistake. To put the public's anger at rest, maybe they could put the operator through retraining or something, but they shouldn't fire them.
The first question that should be addressed is what type of train was this? Was it a type 4 train? If it was, that could've contributed to this incident occurring because those cameras they have on the trains can be quite unreliable, I've heard, and that might have been why the operator did not see what was going on.
Second, the father did have some responsibility in this happening because he had a bike trailer he was loading into the train as well as the bike itself, so he was partially at fault.Those door buttons never work. I never have seen them work. I've tried using them before to no avail, so Bekki Witt was wrong about that. They can work, but only if the train's doors are released, so they must not have been.
Obviously, the operator is at fault a little here. I will be following up with this to see what else is found out about this, but I feel that if the operator had checked the mirrors (or cameras in the type 4 trains) this could've been prevented. But also, we have to keep in mind human error. This hasn't happened since November of 2009 and every day there are chances of this happening. Unless the operator's vision was obstructed and they could not see the father loading his bike because of that, I would rule this out as simple human error.
Also, if when the operator checked his mirrors (or cameras), and they only saw the father standing on the platform with his bike, they could've thought he wasn't boarding the train or simply waiting for the next one. This would also just be pure human error. You can't prevent human error. Things happen.
If it comes to TriMet deciding whether to fire the operator or not, I think they shouldn't. Even if it is shown that the operator was mostly at fault, this hasn't happened for over two years, and was just a mistake. A foolish one at that, but a mistake. To put the public's anger at rest, maybe they could put the operator through retraining or something, but they shouldn't fire them.
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