According to a July 19, AP report “The operator of a light-rail train that crashed [in San Francisco], injuring dozens of passengers as well as the operator, came under scrutiny on Sunday as federal investigators tried to figure out why he turned off the automatic controls moments before the accident. Ted Turpin, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said that the operator switched the controls from automatic to manual in a tunnel near the West Portal Station and that he never engaged the emergency brake. Had the operator kept the autopilot on, Mr. Turpin said, the train would have slowed down before arriving at the station and most likely not have careened into a parked train while going 23 miles per hour.”
Sharing the Road with Motorcycles
April 4, 2012
Spring is in the air and motorcycle owners are chomping at the bit in anticipation of getting their bikes back on the road after a long winter. My neighbor, for example, recently bought a new bike and this year splurged on a shed to store it in. He