If they want to take the risk upon themselves of violating the rules and letting an unauthorized person in the cab or committing some other violation, then that is their decision.
If an engineer, operating on a entirely separated right of way behind a fence wants to take upon themselves the risk of letting a
nincompoop like you operate a train, my hat comes off to them- and to Charles Darwin.
But if that engineer does that when his locomotive is attached to a train that I happen to be riding on, or on a train on the same line that I happen to be riding on, I would like to drag his sorry arse out of his cab, and kick him all the way down his bloody train and back again.
I don't care about your life. If you have this reckless and selfish disregard for the safety of other people, perhaps I'd even lean in the other direction slightly. But I do not care to have you endanger mine, or have some jerk off of an engineer facilitate your so doing.
Really GML, name calling? Do you really care that much about what some kid on an internet forum says? I think the picture below applies to you.
I do not care that you do not care about my life. I do not care about yours. I do not care what you or anyone else here thinks of me.
<----GML???
Let's review what I've said here:
1. I do not think there should be inward facing cameras in locomotive cabs for privacy reasons
(this is my logical reason).
2. I
(selfishly and illogically) hope that cameras are not installed, as I would not feel comfortable taking a cab ride with a camera watching me.
I would enjoy a cab ride, and would take one if offered, but I do not seek opportunities for them. If I were in the cab, and the engineer offered to let me take the throttle for a moment, with him/her supervising, I would. I do not seek opportunities to do this either.
Now why is it that I am labeled as a threat to public safety? The odds of me ever getting a cab ride are
tiny. The odds of me ever taking the throttle of a locomotive are
minuscule. The odds of me causing harm to anyone by operating a locomotive are
microscopic. Why are some of you so worried by what one
insignificant 16 YO says on an internet forum? How many of you drive a car? Do you realize how much more likely you are to harm yourself or someone else while driving a car than I am to harm anyone while operating a locomotive? Really, if some of you this concerned by some comments by an
idiot teen on a forum, I don't know how you get by in the real world.