Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:28:14 on
Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Recliner remarked:

I was talking in general, even when people have walked past big red
buffers at a terminus, a surprising number are then confused about
which way it'll depart.

And surprisingly often, such as at Kings Cross platform 9 this morning,
the driver apparently doesn't even realise the big red buffers mean
"stop before colliding with me".

That's assuming there wasn't a technical failure.

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ember.org, at 20:33:06 on Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Recliner
remarked:
I was talking in general, even when people have walked past big red
buffers at a terminus, a surprising number are then confused about
which way it'll depart.

And surprisingly often, such as at Kings Cross platform 9 this morning,
the driver apparently doesn't even realise the big red buffers mean
"stop before colliding with me".

That's assuming there wasn't a technical failure.

Failure of the emergency braking system would be very serious indeed.
The whole fleet would surely be out of service for inspection by now?
--
Roland Perry