{"id":37004,"date":"2014-02-20T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/metrolink-to-roll-out-collision-avoidance-system\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:03:57","slug":"metrolink-to-roll-out-collision-avoidance-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/metrolink-to-roll-out-collision-avoidance-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink to roll out collision avoidance system","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16106\" style=\"margin-top: 4px;margin-bottom: 4px;margin-left: 8px;margin-right: 8px\" alt=\"Metrolink _Train_Only v2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/metrolink_logo_with_train.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"77\" \/>The Metrolink passenger railroad Thursday (Feb. 20) will become the first commuter service in the nation to roll out a sophisticated collision avoidance system designed to overcome human error.<\/p>\n<p>Had so-called positive train control been in place five years ago, experts say, it would have prevented Metrolink&#8217;s deadly Chatsworth crash. In that accident, an engineer missed a red stop signal while text-messaging on his cellphone and struck a Union Pacific freight train head-on. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete story at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-metrolink-train-control-20140220,0,1206232.story#axzz2ts1laims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metrolink passenger railroad Thursday (Feb. 20) will become the first commuter service in the nation to roll out a sophisticated collision avoidance system designed to overcome human error. Had so-called positive train control been in place five years ago, experts say, it would have prevented Metrolink&#8217;s deadly Chatsworth crash. 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