{"id":183,"date":"2003-09-08T23:25:55","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T04:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/09\/08\/gps-might-help-indian-trainwrecks\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:37:30","slug":"gps-might-help-indian-trainwrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/09\/08\/gps-might-help-indian-trainwrecks\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS might help Indian trainwrecks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a104'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BBC has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/3080236.stm\">story<\/a> on Indian trains getting some technology upgrades to help fight train crashes.  One of them is using GPS to help relay information on where the trains are as a preventative measure.   Hopefully, this will work.<\/p>\n<p>There was mention of another tool which buzzes from inactivity to keep the driver awake.  I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m too keen on that idea.  Perhaps making sure the train drivers aren&#8217;t overworked and hence exhausted and impress on them the gravity of their line of work would probably be a better idea.   Having annoying buzzers go off sounds like covering up the reason why the drivers fall asleep.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a story on Indian trains getting some technology upgrades to help fight train crashes. One of them is using GPS to help relay information on where the trains are as a preventative measure. Hopefully, this will work. There was mention of another tool which buzzes from inactivity to keep the driver awake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}