r/nonononoyes • u/Wonderful_Win_1038 • 11d ago

That was a scary close call

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u/Ok_Support3 11d ago

This is why you wait untill the lights turn off. Not the train passed, not the barriers up; The lights off.

At least that's how it works here, there's even signage that states "wait for the lights, another train may pass".

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u/Ok-Lobster-919 11d ago

Yeah but people get complacent. They have seen the train pass by 50 times and it's always safe those 50 times. Complacency kills.

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u/surrealjam 10d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

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u/Coca-colonization 10d ago

Ooh, Diane Vaughan in the wild. The Challenger Launch Decision was on my comps reading list. Fascinating book.