Miracle on the Jubille Line

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108744/London-Underground-Jubilee-line-Boy-5-fell-Tube-rescued-driver-spots-hand.html

Bloody hell... Terrifying. My heart's in my mouth just reading that.

Amazing driver.

That's made me all wobbly.

Yes, brings home the importance of drivers on trains. Human beings can make judgements and take split-second decisions that machines can't make. For health and safety I prefer human beings over machine operated systems.

Couldn't agree more.

But the machine does all the checks it's programmed to do 100% of the time, the human does not depending on their frame of mind and can miss things if they are busy thinking of other things, machines are infallible as they are nothing more then difference engines, where they mess up is due to human error while coding or implementing them.

Why do we still have such large gaps?, trains have been a standard size since the 70's on stations that are only served by one type there is no excuse, at stations served by more then one type on the same line, is it not time the sizes of all the trains where standardised, made identical in all but colour so the gaps can be reduced?.

Most large gaps are in stations with a curved platform, its quite scary how big the gap is sometimes. It's not usually to do with the width of the trains

then have sort of metal step things that rise up from the platform and meet the train making a ramp, or an inflatable rubber barrier type thing that comes out just under the edge of the platform when the train stops.

We have the technology, we can rebuild!.

irrc I read in the london standard yest that if they did do away with drivers there would be an infra red sensor to check the gap. Agree tho, still better to have a person checking.

Hops - and you reckon any such system would be completely failsafe?

Thank heavens the driver noticed.

What worries me about this bright idea of getting rid of drivers - and station staff, let's not forget they are planning to leave loads of stations outside the very centre completely unmanned - is what happens in an emergency? You've got hundreds if not thousands (depending on how many lines in the station) of people trapped.