Indian trains will soon have voice recorders or black boxes to assist investigators trying to identify the cause of accidents and determine crew performance.
A Railway Ministry official said, “Keeping in mind the safety of passengers, the Indian Railways has decided to install the Loco Cab Voice Recording (LCVR) devices in the locomotives. The system is in the developmental stage.”
According to the official, these sensors would give constant inputs to those in control rooms to avoid accidents, carry out maintenance and would help improve the efficiency of railway operations.
The black box is currently used in aircrafts and is made of two separate pieces of equipment — the flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder and is usually kept in the tail of the aircraft where they are more likely to survive a crash.
