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\\ \\ ! :J 1965 Nalioua! Safely Congress years ago 4hat we began to apply, these features and is self checking against fail-;, time-tested and time-proved principles .- to ures. Use is made of redundance and. selfgeneral industry, with almost immediate rec repair techniques tp promote reliability; Sub ognition that we had equipment that would stantial capability is provided for manual work efficiently and reliably. supervisory . control of the system.' when Included in this apparatus are-highway apd required. ; ` walkway; crossing protection systems for The technologies invojved in automating industrial narrow and standard gauge rail industrial processes by means of. remotely roads, area warning systems to protect ve controlled or automatically operated vehicles hicle . and personnel, at dangerous areas in or machinery haye been making steady prog industrial complexes, and even electrically ress for years in practically every ar$^6f locked derails, completely interlocked with >. industrial operation. As experts in yourjn- door operating mechanism for door closures dustries, I know you are keenly aware of over tracks, to prevent damage by moving due inroads made within, your own par cars to personnel or the dooritsrif. ticular operations. Automatic warehouses, Sometime ago' when it was made public production tines, strip mills, bottling proc that the -San Francisco Bay Area Rapid esses, packagihg lines, identification systems Transit organization bad received approval --if you can name it it's probably auto from the voters to spend almost one billion mated, or about to be! And I'm sure we : dollars on a completely automatic rapid all realize that the. major problems existing transit system, We immediately drew upon today are not those pertaining to engineering, the specialized experience, skills and produc 1 but are those that concern the political, tion facilities available to us |o design and .social and personnel aspects of automatic: offer a communication and .control system control. ; for tins transportation complex. . These are the problems which must be Today,- the system is ready and we are solved so that our engineering tad com- . ready. This system for. automatically opr munication talents can be focused on modi eraling rapid, transit , lines features, the use fying and; adapting existing equipment and of a general-purpose digital computer in an oh developing new apparatus for. appJica- operations control center responsible for tions of remote control wliich, in many in running the system'. stances, will lead to automatic control.r ; An automatic wayside system .is respon ,Who would have thought IS years .ago sible for the safe operation of trains. It that we could control aiid guide systems for also executes commands ;frorri the operations blasting space vehicles into orbit around die control center and furnishes Idata needed by earth or for hitting; the moon or Vehus? {he central computer. - | The idea of- ah atomic missile surging out . An automatic propulsion and braking; sys tem aboard each train controls acceleration and deceleration in accordance with com mands received from die operation control of the ocean from a nuclear, submarine would have been called science fiction. But many times in the past decade we haveproved that die Jules Verne type of science center aiid the automatic wayside system. fiction is now a realityj. This system,aut6matically performs the train In view of the almost awesome tech running and stopping function. nological advances'bring made so swiftly in High speed digital communication net our world today, remote and .automatic works are used to transfer information control of; operations in industry actually throughout die system. take on more of a simple than a complex Each integral sub-system has fail-safe' aspect. - $ 71