Re: RIP ASW?

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Rod wrote:

> |In railway signalling on a single line, there is no such thing as a minor
> over-run.
>
> That's the problem!  When you are sitting in the cab as someone hurtles past
> the signal that is supposed to protect you, you can just say this could not
> have been a 'minor over-run', because their is no such thing....So the
> signal facing the other driver must have been proceed, and the indication
> was therefore incorrect.....But hold on David, Signals cannot lie!   The
> Driver is at fault.
> Drivers should have the only responsibility for signalling! They should
> select the designs, oversee their construction, and operation. Then we would
> be safe from the "In railway signalling on a single line, there is no such
> thing as a minor over-run."  mentality
> Rod

I got confused reading this, a bit double dutch. However, it appears that it
could descend into the driver v everyone else type of thread and thus will be
avoided.

David.