At a hearing of the National Transportation Safety Board about last year’s commuter-rail crash in California, railroad union officials objected to surveillance cameras that would monitor train crews inside locomotives.
The officials said they could accept outward-facing cameras — which, for example, would monitor the track — but that inward-facing cameras could violate the privacy of crew members. Instead, they suggested having a second person in the cab. Metrolink, the California commuter agency involved in the crash, plans to install inward-facing cameras as a way to try to prevent behavior that led to the accident, like the engineer’s use of his cell phone.
Link to full story in The New York Times.
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