Re: guard/driver training (was: "Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe")

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Keith Malcolm)]

In article <7he9h0$2d8$1@lios.apana.org.au> craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick) writes:
>From: craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)
>Subject: Re: guard/driver training (was: "Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe")
>Date: 13 May 1999 20:28:48 +1000


>You can certainly teach people by the book(s) in a short time - I don't
>dispute that at all, but to give people a classroom course and then say
>"right, off you go" doesn't work with a system so diverse as ours.

>Regards,

>Craig.
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You can't teach people to think two or three moves ahead as is required for 
efficient train working either