OUT OF CONTROL

摘要

Giving drivers too little to do may be asking for trouble. Mark Young and Neville Stanton are discovering the hidden dangers of automationrnIn october 1999, a local passenger train passed through a red light at Ladbroke Grove junction and hit a packed express heading into London's busy Paddington station. Thirty-one people lost their lives. In the aftermath of the crash, people were shocked to learn that British train drivers passed through red lights on no fewer than 73 occasions that same month. It's at times of tragedy like these that we wish technology could step in whenever fallible humans fail.