Pointing and Calling Japanese Safety Standard at Railway Companies & Toyota (HD)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN finds it fascinating and suggests the technique for keeping operators like test drivers attentive.
What it is
A short documentary clip of Japanese railway workers and Toyota staff using pointing-and-calling, a safety practice of physically pointing at and naming things while working. It includes examples from several railway companies.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends tga · 2018-06 · on “Arizona Uber crash driver was 'watching TV'”
Contrary to many here, I feel that it's perfectly reasonable to have a backup human driver if they are trained to act accordingly . The Japanese pointing-and-calling technique comes to mind as a good example of keeping drivers engaged: they would have to continuously, actively point at dangers and at the car's appropriate response. [this video] (quite fascinating to watch) Combine this with short sessions (not driving around for hours with nothing to do), and I think the driver would have had a reasonable chance of preventing this accident.
Cites g09980 · 2018-04 · on “Former Uber Backup Driver: 'We Saw This Coming'”
In Japanese rail, conductors and drivers periodically point with their hand [1][2] to indicate awareness of the task. Reading the article, perhaps these distracted test drivers could use a similar approach. [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]
Cites yreg · 2022-04 · on “We lost 54k GitHub stars”
I was mesmerised how the Japanese train operators (and perhaps other similar workers) have to follow checklists where they physically point[0] at everything they are doing even when they are alone. Now I'm wondering whether this approach actually works. [0] - [this video]