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You know what else has a great design on a plane? The turbofan engines. In fact, give me a blueprint for a 757 and I can probably find 50,000 things with better
by mynameishere 19y ago
You know what else has a great design on a plane? The turbofan engines. In fact, give me a blueprint for a 757 and I can probably find 50,000 things with better design than the bathroom lock. I have a special fondness for the RAT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
and if I had to choose between the bathroom lock and this set of technologies,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_protection_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_protection_system
...well, I just don't know. But no one adores the trivial like 37signals. Of course, you say, "They are focusing on user-centric design." Well...in that case, the door-light combination doesn't seem as good as a motion-detector-door-light combination, which would turn ON with motion, stay on when LOCKED, and turn off when UNLOCKED. That didn't take an engineering degree to come up with. Where's my kudos?
- anupamkapoor 19y agoi for one _really_ like the lightning conductors built such that the radars on the plane don't get fried during a lightning strike.
- easyfrag 19y agoYou're introducing unnecessary complexity into the system; instead of the lock, light, and wiring between the two we would have lock, light, motion detector, and wiring between all three. It may be trivial, but ensuring fewer failure points is good design, especially at 30 000 feet.