{"id":36814,"date":"2013-12-06T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/highway-hypnosis-could-be-factor-in-derailment\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:01:09","slug":"highway-hypnosis-could-be-factor-in-derailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/highway-hypnosis-could-be-factor-in-derailment\/","title":{"rendered":"'Highway hypnosis' could be factor in derailment","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK \u2013 It’s sometimes called “highway hypnosis” or “white-line fever,” and it’s familiar to anyone who has ever driven long distances along a monotonous route.<\/p>\n
Drivers are lulled into a semitrance state and reach their destination with little or no memory of parts of the trip. But what if it happened to an engineer at the controls of a speeding passenger train?<\/p>\n