[00:03] NeverEnding source of amusement for rail fans train spotters gunzel and denha otaku they're also an environmentally friendly way to transport goods and people across land but do you know what trains are not good at stopping suddenly
[00:20] a fully laden cargo train traveling at full speed can take up to 2 km to stop despite experiments with cat ear shaped a brakes this is down to simple physics
[00:33] heavy objects traveling at high speeds take a lot of force to slow down cars can avoid rear-end collisions by looking at the car ahead of them and backing off to an appropriate distance but if a train can see another train ahead of it
[00:49] that means that they're already too close in order to prevent trains plowing into the backs of each other train networks have systems to ensure or separation between trains one of the most common is called the signaling
[01:05] block system this system divides a track into blocks and only one train is permitted into to a block at a time these blocks are then protected by signals which look a bit like a traffic light the simplest such
[01:22] light the simplest such systems can have a green signal to indicate that a train is authorized to enter that block and a red signal to indicate that it's dangerous to enter the block if
[01:35] everything is following the correct timetables then the trains will rarely encounter a red signal but when a train has unexpectedly stopped or slowed it
[01:47] has unexpectedly stopped or slowed it ensures the proper separation of trains this simple system has an unfortunate problem it relies on a human to see the problem it relies on a human to see the signal recognize what to do and respond
[02:02] accordingly human brains are complex products of evolution and experience and sometimes they do things that we do not want like suddenly developing a craving want like suddenly developing a craving for a moss tonkatsu burger at 1: in the
[02:17] for a moss tonkatsu burger at 1: in the morning when you are over 7,000 km away from a shop that will sell one another thing human brains do is expectation thing human brains do is expectation bias a bias towards thinking things are
[02:32] the way we expect them to be when distracted or fatigued this can be Amplified to a point where a person can falsely perceive reality the eyes might
[02:44] be sensing a red light but the driver is seeing green consider this scenario a train driver has been driving
[02:56] the same scheduled train for half a decade however last night he was kept awake by his vtuber neighbor ranting about the his vtuber neighbor ranting about the lack of poor cutlet Burgers tired he
[03:10] briefly glances up to the signal a signal that has been green fast 260 times he has looked at it and during that brief view it looked green to him
[03:23] this time as well however he was wrong a cargo train had broken down on the track before him and now Al driver's train plows into the back of a cargo train and its carriages packed full of inflatable
[03:36] its carriages packed full of inflatable stunt crash mats gymnasium safety foam and bubble wrap passing through a red light an event referred to in the light an event referred to in the industry as a signal past at danger or a
[03:49] spad is a serious safety incident the Japanese rail industry has developed a Japanese rail industry has developed a procedure to reduce the danger of bad called point and call it involves pointing at the signal and then calling
[04:05] out what they see this procedure directs a person's attention towards the signal and forces them to process it fully in addition hearing yourself helps the person process what they see in part this operates very similar to the rubber
[04:21] duct debugging procedures used by programmers Studies by Japan railway's research Wing has shown that pointing and calling can result in a
[04:33] and calling can result in a 85% reduction in mistakes in Japan and neighboring countries pointing and calling has been introduced into other calling has been introduced into other safety critical Industries it has also
[04:46] been adopted in the northern American public transport systems in New York City and Toronto let's try it out right now hold
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