Transportation
Witnesses clash over whether rail safety tech can replace visual track inspections
R. Jefferies argued that automated track inspection outperforms human walkers and supports cutting visual checks to once a week, but Cole Scandalia countered that the technology covers only 6 of 23 required defect categories and must not supplant mandatory visual inspections.
“ATI can identify up to 200% higher defects than the naked eye. And during those pilot programs, the safety outcomes were dramatic, a significantly higher safety result that occurred.”