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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 29161 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 ![]() ![]() |
Likely required now with Google traffic to predict the most efficient routing.Still a GPS failWouldn't know. Never used one. Never had a need to. :-) |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13334 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
An indication of the brilliance (or lack of) when it comes to route planning software.Likely required now with Google traffic to predict the most efficient routing.Still a GPS failWouldn't know. Never used one. Never had a need to. :-) Apparently the software many of our drivers now have to use originated in the US where they drive on the right hand side of the road. Here we drive on the left hand side of the road- but the software hadn't been modified to take that in to consideration. So the drivers instead of doing what they have always done- driving along & stopping to deliver at that address -were having to turn across traffic to get to the delivery address, then turn across traffic again when leaving the delivery address to get to the next address, then having to turn across traffic again to deliver to the next address. Then turn across the traffic again to get to their next delivery address, etc, etc, etc. Rinse & repeat (apparently that issue has been fixed- it took months would you believe to convince those higher up that this was a problem). To add to that mess, the software often has the drivers driving up & down the same road 3, 4 or even as many as 6 times as they would deliver an item, then drive past an address that had a delivery in order to deliver a few more parcels further down the road, then drive back to the address they went past previously to finally deliver there. And the software has them delivering parcels in a group of streets, then going to the other side of the suburb (or to another suburb), do some deliveries there, then back to the area they were before to do more deliveries there. On a big day the drivers using the manual run method were able to deliver 250+ parcels. With the brilliant new computer optimised delivery system, if they can do 150 it's a miracle (if they have to deliver to multiple suburbs 80 can be a good result). And still we are unable to convince those that brought in the system that it's not as wonderful as they claim it is- regardless of all the evidence pointing to that conclusion. Grant Darwin NT |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24428 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
A phenomenon well known about in the driver's database. Sadly it pre-dates software. It now also permeates throughout society as seen by the "me 1st" & "you will deliver when I want the delivery" crowd. The best one I ever experienced was a day that was unexpected for both my oppo & I. We arrived at our last drop at 10:30 & thought, this is a 1st back home by 1pm at the latest. No answer at the door so called customer. "Sorry, I'm at work. You will have to wait until I get home." "What time will that be" "Around 4:30pm" "Okay no problem" 15 minutes from the depot (12:40), phone rings. It's the office where are you? On the 605 Oh Why? Can you go back to Shillingford (Oxfordshire)? No. Think about that. :-) |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 2530 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
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Can't view that from the UK at the moment. :( Happy Crunching, Graham ![]() |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 2530 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Can't view that from the UK at the moment. :( For those that can't access the carjacking article previously linked here is a link to a different site with just about Verbatim text: https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/10/14/would-be-alleged-carjackers-bested-victim-trained-martial-arts/ |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24428 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Do a lot of motoring? Be careful out there, not all the idiots are on the road. Don't wear distinctive t-shirts in a bus lane |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 26241 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 ![]() ![]() |
After 4yrs of knowing about this problem finally D.C. Pulls 60 Percent of Its Metro Fleet After Design Flaw Causes Derailment. The Metro authority's safety commission ordered overnight that the entire 7000-series line of trains—comprising 748 cars, or about 60 percent of the fleet—should be pulled.If the problem was known about back in 2017 the question must be asked, why has it taken this long to do something about it? [edit] Another take on the problem, Washington Subway Derailment Spurs Warning for Other Cities. Cheers.[/url] |
Dr Who Fan ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 2530 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 ![]() |
If the problem was known about back in 2017 the question must be asked, why has it taken this long to do something about it? Not surprising - politics gets in the way.. This is the USA where if we knew about it 40 years ago, we might now just be getting around to forming an advisory board to look at it. Just about all "big metro cities" here work like this. |
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... Not surprising - politics gets in the way.. Sounds just like for "Global Warming" - "Climate Change"... Except the politicians have been alerted to the fact since 200 years ago! All on our only one planet... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 26241 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 ![]() ![]() |
I hope that they find the moron/s that left the car on the tracks and throw the book at them. Crime scene declared as train derails in Kembla Grange near Wollongong. There are no pics or footage of the car so what's left of it must be still under the train. No cheers here, until they find the moron/s. |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17478 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Lucky. All 21 escape plane crash, only two minor injuries. |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17478 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
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If there isn't enough shipping problems already. Emergency zone expanded around burning container ship. Sixteen people have been evacuated from a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Canada, according to officials. |
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3 killed, 1 injured after Amtrak train strikes vehicle at South Carolina railroad crossing. Three people died and one person was injured after an Amtrak train collided with a vehicle at a railroad crossing in South Carolina in the early hours of Saturday, fire officials said.:-( |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17478 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Breaking News - Services halted after two trains crash near Salisbury A number of passengers have been injured in a crash between two trains near Salisbury. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13334 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
A Network Rail spokesperson said: "At around 19:00 GMT this evening, the rear carriage of the 17:08 Great Western Railway service from Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads derailed after striking an object on its approach to Salisbury station.Will be interesting to see the results of this investigation, particularly the timing. I'd have though the standard response for a train approaching a signal that was out would be to stop- or at the very least reduce speed (60, 40, 20, 10km/h) to allow a stop within the available visible distance. ie- fail safe. It could very well be that the driver of the second train was already slowing, but didn't have time to stop before hitting the derailed train. Or it's very likely the there were no other signals since the last green between the other train & the derailed one- the image isn't too clear but it looks like the derailed carriage ended up impinging on the adjacent track and the second train was coming from the opposite direction. Grant Darwin NT |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14474 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Looking at the local maps, I'd say that the second train was following the first, travelling in the same direction. The reports that "signalling in the area was knocked out [by the first de-railment]" are worrying - the default response (whether under human or automatic control) should have been to give a 'stop' indication for all movement in the area. There have been a lot of reports of delays and service disruption on Britain's railways in recent weeks. Some have been attributed to bad weather (which should be well understood by now, in these soggy islands), but I get the feeling that something else has been going on. It may just be a run of the usual mindless vandalism (up to and including the theft of signal cable for the copper content), or there may be a design problem in the latest technological upgrades. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 29161 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 ![]() ![]() |
knocked out? what happens to the automatic system? does that line have an automatic system? is there no indication at all? don't they carry radios? much to look at. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13334 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
Looking at the local maps, I'd say that the second train was following the first, travelling in the same direction. The reports that "signalling in the area was knocked out [by the first de-railment]" are worrying - the default response (whether under human or automatic control) should have been to give a 'stop' indication for all movement in the area.Physical damage to the data connection, or a fault packet in the data or corrupted data should make the entire section go to all stop, but if there is no power to a signal or group of signals, only those still with power will show the stop signal. And if there are no lights on the signals i'd expect the default requirement to be for the driver to stop (or at least slow to a speed that allows a stop within the available line of sight/weather conditions), and call network control for further advice. I think it's going to be a complicated investigation- Why the initial derailment? Was the signalling knocked out (ie no lights showing) and if so why did an accident at that point affect the area, not just the physically local signals. Why did the other train not stop under those circumstances? Grant Darwin NT |
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