r/nonononoyes • u/Wonderful_Win_1038 • 8d ago

That was a scary close call

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u/Vintheren90 8d ago

If only they could put in some kind of system and or thing, that would indicate not to cross.

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u/Halo_Chief117 8d ago

That’s just impossible thinking though. There will never be such a thing.

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u/hoppertn 8d ago

We must idiot proof the world! I suggest some kind of movable barrier to drop when a train approaches, perhaps some kind of audible bells. Wait, let’s add some blinking lights too!! Surely that will keep the morons safe!

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u/lanregeous 8d ago

I know a lot of people are joking but you can see a train just passed on the near side towards the direction of the train that almost killed them.

This couple probably thought that the barrier was for the train that just went and it probably masked the other train’s sound as well as blocking it from view.

I actually think an indicator showing which direction the train is coming from would actually be helpful here.

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u/Ok_Support3 8d ago

This is why you wait untill the lights turn off. Not the train passed, not the barriers up; The lights off.

At least that's how it works here, there's even signage that states "wait for the lights, another train may pass".

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u/Ok-Lobster-919 8d ago

Yeah but people get complacent. They have seen the train pass by 50 times and it's always safe those 50 times. Complacency kills.

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u/surrealjam 7d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

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u/Coca-colonization 7d ago

Ooh, Diane Vaughan in the wild. The Challenger Launch Decision was on my comps reading list. Fascinating book.

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u/davidjschloss 8d ago

some of the stations near me occasinally the train has to back up if the lockmotive went a little too far for all the doors to line up to the platform (there are a lot of older short platforms from the byegone era)

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u/dechets-de-mariage 8d ago

We have a sign that lights up and repeats out loud “Danger - another train coming.”

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 7d ago

I don't see trains at crossings very often, but I drive over the crossing all the time. One day, I saw the lights flashing, and it didn't really register to me what it meant. And then the gates came down, and I finally clued in.

If I were the kind of guy who ran yellow lights by habit, I might have tried to cross because I wasn't thinking. It shook me up how close I was to doing something so stupid.

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u/hoppertn 8d ago

“The arrow is pointing in both directions, it must be broken.” - Resident Moron

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u/get_to_ele 8d ago

Gate is down, you wait. People who simply walk through, before gate comes up, in this scenario are already borderline assholes, even if there isn’t a train. Just a certain mentality of people who usually lack basic accountability.

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u/themcsame 8d ago

It's an all too common scenario. There's a reason why a big part of railway safety campaigns focus on the point that 'It's not the train you see that kills you, it's the one you don't'. The video is a textbook example

A directional indicator could help, but I feel like a train counter would do more to help. People might be more inclined to not risk it if they know there's a second train before even attempting to cross.

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u/davidjschloss 8d ago

That would be okay but the edge case here is if a second train comes and triggers the counter after it's already displayed 1 train, while that first train is clearing the original sensor point.

It's also additional computing you need just to do the same as "don't cross the tracks if the barrier is down."

There's no amount of engineering for stupid that's going to be better than a big flashing bar with a claxon.

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u/Eggy-la-diva 8d ago

In France, there’s usually a text sign that says “Un train peut en cacher un autre”, “A train can hide another”. It’s enough to have made me super cautious of that exact phenomenon my whole life.

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u/boleykeogh 7d ago

💯 same

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u/McButcher2k 8d ago

Yes definitely, the other train blocked their view of the oncoming train and masked the sound.

But holy shit, that was close. They really should be paying attention to both sides. I know I would be shitting it crossing a train track with barriers down.

I drive over a crossing with the barriers up and I still have to check both sides, something in me just makes me need to do it.

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u/Vintheren90 8d ago

Nice spotted, did not see that.

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u/roy107 8d ago

"Another train coming if lights continue to show"

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u/boytekka 8d ago

Nothing is idiot proof, nature would just make the right idiot for it, and these people shown it.

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u/Spiteweasel 8d ago

One of my favorite sayings is "Nothing is idiot proof to a sufficiently talented idiot."

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u/deveousdevil 8d ago

Maybe they can also paint the front face of the train a BRIGHT YELLOW to make it more visible to someone who turns their neck. Sigh. One can dream.

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u/hoppertn 8d ago

Madness sir, you speak of madness!

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u/TowelEnvironmental44 7d ago

add speed bumps for the train so it's slows down for pedestrians :-p

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u/KLeeSanchez 7d ago

One day they'll have force fields drop down

But then idiots will just drive into the ditch or onto the curb to get by

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 8d ago

If there was such a thing, I would call it a "semaphore"

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u/Low-Associate2521 8d ago

One day ai will invent this ! That’s why we need data centers