Hodgetwins dissect a September 24th incident where an SFMTA driver fell asleep at 50 mph, causing passengers to fall and forcing a car to swerve. While Julie Kirschbaum condemned the fatigue-induced error, the episode debates whether racial bias or overwork caused the hiring of an unqualified operator. With emergency brakes failing until manual jolting woke the train, the discussion pivots to AI speed-limiting software, questioning if technology can finally replace human fallibility in public transit safety. [Automatically generated summary]
Transcriber: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, sat-12l-sm, and large-v3-turbo
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Stereotypes on the Train00:08:01
Is she trying to get comfortable?
Look at those eyebrows.
Eyelashes.
Eyelashes.
They're looking like the eyebrows.
That is crazy.
We got stereotyped for a reason.
She ain't on the porch going to sleep.
Then a train going to sleep.
That is nuts.
D-E-I.
Yeah.
But this is San Francisco.
Unqualified.
That is crazy.
It's eight in the morning.
Why you...
I can understand if it's like five, maybe six, seven o'clock at night.
Maybe three flu in the morning.
But it's 8 a.m.
Maybe she's been driving all night.
She is out.
Those big hip eyelashes don't help neither.
What does she think she on cruise control?
Look at the people.
Look what she's saying.
Almost hit that car.
She was supposed to stop back there.
I'm sorry.
Relax, relax, relax.
I want it to live.
We didn't crash.
Relax.
Relax.
Oh, my God.
You more than five.
I'm sorry.
Relax.
I'm on it a lot.
We didn't crash.
Relax.
Relax.
It wouldn't stop.
Relax.
It wouldn't stop.
Why wouldn't it stop?
Listen what she says.
Watch this.
We're okay.
Okay.
It just wouldn't stop.
It wouldn't stop.
It would not stop.
The emergency brake wouldn't even hit.
Look.
The emergency brake wouldn't even hit.
I think you're the emergency.
You should be the emergency brake.
But do you heard the verbiage she's using?
It's like she doesn't understand the lingo.
Right.
What is she?
A train conductor?
She's got to be somebody important.
She's sitting in that chair for a reason.
I'm sure she had to pass some kind of qualification to get this job.
Yeah.
It wouldn't stop.
It would not stop.
The emergency brake wouldn't even hit.
Look, it's going.
It wouldn't even hit.
Now it's on.
It wouldn't even stop.
I don't know what happened.
So I'm going to go up here and I'm going to ask them to protect the train.
Okay.
Can we get out?
What's crazy is these people, none of them believe her.
Right.
Look at the girl.
Look at the white blonde right there.
She said she is straight up lying to us.
If I was y'all, I'll be getting hit off this train.
That's what I would.
But the news covered it.
Look what the news had to say.
Gray and Vicki, everyone I spoke with today was surprised that no one was seriously hurt during the incident caught on camera.
The video shows riders on the muni falling to the ground and the driver being shaken awake, driving at a speed of 50 miles per hour.
In the video from September 24th, you see the driver of a muni train with their eyes closed and head down at 8.37 a.m. appearing to fall asleep behind the wheel.
SFMTA says the train was exiting the sunset tunnel near Dubose Park when unexpected jolting shakes the driver awake and the train speeds through its planned stop at Dubose Ave and Noe Street.
Rashad Ali watched the video at the Muni stop surrounded by pedestrians, cyclists, and dogs.
Scary for everyone involved, I feel like.
Like the cars here, the people standing on the side, the people inside, the driver themselves, actually, like when she woke up and realized what was going on, I'm pretty sure that was pretty scary too.
I'm sorry, relax, relax.
The driver apologizes to the riders, many of whom could be seen falling to the ground while the train narrowly misses an oncoming car that has to swerve out of the way.
Look at that.
That's crazy.
This could have been so much worse.
Hey, Greg Mundia watched the video of the driver telling riders to relax.
We didn't crash.
Relax.
Kind of freaks me out.
I'm like, I drive on this all the time.
I take the bus as well a lot.
And I don't know, falling asleep at work and possibly hitting a car is kind of scary.
Paramedics responded to the scene, and an SFMTA investigation confirmed error as a result of operator fatigue.
The driver has been placed on non-driving status according to the agency.
She should be fired.
Yeah, she should.
When I see something like this happen, San Francisco, I'm thinking she was hired just because of the color of her skin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's why she has that job.
Well, most definitely.
Most definitely.
If you're running a professional establishment, Amtrak, train station, right?
As soon as she walked in with those eyelashes, that's a red flag to me.
I'm sorry, but you are not what we're looking for.
I want to never hire her.
Just those eyelashes alone.
Yeah.
It has had to reinforce training on the importance of watching for signs of fatigue and reporting it.
Hopefully they're getting the amount of time off they need and resting.
Come on.
How much you want to bet because she went to the club dance.
Yeah.
They're trying to downplay what happened.
They're trying to put the fault on the San Francisco Muni train, their leadership, and they're overworking their employees.
That is not what's happening.
And being able to not fall asleep when they're at work.
SFMTA Director of Transportation, Julie Kirschbaum, issued a statement Monday in response to the newly surfaced video saying, quote, we know this was a frightening experience for our riders and we take that very seriously.
Safety is always our top priority.
We are committed to accountability in response to this specific unacceptable incident and we are taking all necessary steps to keep Muni safe and reliable for all riders and the public.
That white guy is actually trying to say they're overworking the drivers.
This is how woke the left is.
They're not willing to call out, hey, maybe this girl got her position because the color of her skin.
Maybe she's underqualified.
Maybe she should have never been hired.
San Francisco.
Yeah.
The muni stop where this happened is right next to a children's playground.
SFMTA says they are working with the manufacturer of the new light rail trains to install software that would limit train speeds along specific sections of track.
So they want to fix this situation by AI.
Pretty soon she's going to be out of a job anyway because AI is taking all these jobs.
Yeah.
I mean, if you got to do all of that, you got to install it so the train can only go so fast in a certain area.
What do you need a driver there for?
Yeah.
It's a lot safer to have AI driving it.
Yeah.
I will pick AI any day over a sensor.
That is crazy.
Relax.
I mean, I don't want to sound mean and, but come on, man.
Matt Kevin, maybe she is qualified for the job.
Hell, she can't be crazy.
Maybe she jumped through all those hoops, did what she had to do as a black woman in this systemically racist country, got this opportunity, and because they've been working her so hard, they caused it.
That's not based in reality.
Only a warp person would believe that.
And she wasn't even trying to fight her.
AI vs Human Drivers00:01:09
She was like, yeah.
Yeah, if I was going to sleep, I'd be like, man, I'm going to clothe her.
I'd be like, yes.
Yeah, she's like, yeah.
I'd have been doing this because I'm driving a train.
I'd have been doing some tracks.
I'd have done tracks, man.
So I wake up.
No, she said, man, this is really good.
No, she did this.
She said.
It's crazy.
She didn't lose a fighter.
Yeah, she was getting comfortable.
That's incompetence when you're falling asleep behind a wheel like that.
Of a train?
See, she got comfortable.
That is nuts.
Look, she caught herself, right?
No, she's going to get comfortable.
Yeah, but she caught herself.
She said, hold up.
Did I fall asleep?
No, see, she just tried to get comfortable.
She put her hands in her pockets.
Look where her hair.
Oh, man.
That is crazy.
Tell me, man, the eyelashes do not lie.
You came in at a job interview with those eyelashes.