Derailment highlights risk of 'highway hypnosis'
NEW YORK (AP) — It's sometimes called "highway hypnosis" or "white-line fever," and it's familiar to anyone who has ever driven long distances along a monotonous route. Drivers are lulled into a semi-trance state and reach their destination with little or no memory of parts of the trip. But what if it happened to an engineer at the controls of a speeding passenger train?The man driving the Metro-North locomotive that went off the rails this week in New York City, killing four passengers,...
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