X-Drive spotted trailerbound at SA super carnival

[reposter2]

despite all the other rides being set up and running, X-Drive remains in it's trailer. i talked to the dude running the food store next to it, and apparently it didn't pass safety inspections. this all but confirms my suspicion that no KMG with over the shoulders will ever operate in SA, new or old. it's a shame, this looked like a quality ride when it was in perth.

[Spotty]

On 2/9/2025 at 6:53 PM, reposter2 said:

despite all the other rides being set up and running, X-Drive remains in it's trailer. i talked to the dude running the food store next to it, and apparently it didn't pass safety inspections. this all but confirms my suspicion that no KMG with over the shoulders will ever operate in SA, new or old. it's a shame, this looked like a quality ride when it was in perth.

From what I have heard it's because the KMG rides do not have a seatbelt / secondary locking mechanism. Which the ride actually does as each of the 2 hydraulic systems for the harnesses are 100% independent of each other. SA is the only state where this rule applies. It's a real shame as SA misses out on some great rides that are 100% safe.

[New display name]

SafeWork SA have had bans overturned in the past.  I'm starting to think not only do they have to be independent but they have to be different types of locking mechanism.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I think the logic is that if a fault could befall one method of locking - if both methods are the same, the fault could theoretically befall both at the same time, whereas different methods can't fail in the same way so the likelihood that one cause could trigger both to fail is far less likely, even though the likelihood of either occurring is infinitesimally small.

ie: if both hydraulic locking cylinders have a manufacturing defect, theoretically both cylinders could fail at the same time. Further - it's not technically possible to detect that one cylinder has failed during normal operation - so an operator wouldn't know one had failed until the other failed too. 

This is the main reason why we have coasters where they tell you not to do up your seatbelt, so the operator can perform a push-pull test on the cylinder before attaching the SRS seatbelt.

[ShakeShack]

25 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

This is the main reason why we have coasters where they tell you not to do up your seatbelt, so the operator can perform a push-pull test on the cylinder before attaching the SRS seatbelt.

The main reason why this is the case, is actually due to the seatbelts locking pin. If a guest puts the clasp in incorrectly, doesn't fully latch and then removes it, the locking pin was potentially triggered and pushed up into place. That means that the clasp can't get past it, and lock into place. Only way to resolve that, is to reset, and start the process again.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

If that is the reason, then it's stupid, and i'm siding with Dean Barnett. Seatbelts have been mandatory in Australia since 1972 so people shouldn't be having too many difficulties with them. 

Operators check seatbelts prior to dispatch, so an unsecured seatbelt would be identified, and the train quickly reset, and restraints re-checked. The amount of time this takes, on the rare occasion that someone is incapable of operating a seatbelt would be far less than the additional time it adds to every dispatch for an operator to do it up for each and every rider.

Then again airlines still have to show people how to operate seatbelts, so maybe there are too many lowest common denominators at our parks these days.