The June 22, 2009 Crash of Two
During
the evening rush hour of June 22, 2009, two
- Write a short paragraph describing what went
wrong that led to the crash.
You may want to divide your comments into three parts: technical
failures, human error, and interactions between those two. Cite your sources.
- There is clearly risk associated with turning
over critical tasks to machines.
But of course, completely human-run systems are not risk-free. Can you find out anything that
enables us to compare train fatalities given modern, automated trains with
train fatalities when we used older trains where human operators played
more important roles?