Thread: Taiwanese high-speed driver asleep
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Old 11th May 2010, 06:08
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dead-man controls
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Originally Posted by DSY011 View Post
A Taiwanese High-speed driver was asleep at the controls doing 190mph after taking sleeping tablets.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100510...a-7f81b96.html
I don't know much about modern electric trains but surely the train must have had dead-man controls.
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