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I think that the automotive industry could take a leaf from the aerospace industry. A lot of aerospace money has been spent learning how to do things safely.
by w_t_payne 8y ago
I think that the automotive industry could take a leaf from the aerospace industry.
A lot of aerospace money has been spent learning how to do things safely.
It would be a shame to spend the same money all over again, re-learning the exact same lessons in automotive.
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y agoIt’s not about learning, it’s about allowing. Some companies like Uber and Tesla will do whatever they can get away with, for advantage in the market and ultimately money. The aerospace industry is safe because it is massively regulated.
- w_t_payne 8y agoA lot of the carriers and manufacturers already have a very strong safety culture. The regulator spends most of its time working with smaller companies.
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y agoThat safety culture wasn’t born de novo, it was legislated into being after years of fighting with them. Remember Ralph Nader? The companies that now have a “strong safety culture” were the same that fought against seatbelts for Christ’s sake. Airlines had to experience a decade+ of terror attacks from rank amateurs, Pan Am had to die before basic security screening was accepted.
- wilsonnb2 8y agoMost of the automotive industry already knows how to do things safely. It's really just companies like Uber and Tesla that either don't know or don't care.
- w_t_payne 8y agoAerospace and defence seem to have a much stronger notion of systems engineering than I experienced in Automotive -- but it is entirely possible that what I experienced was an outlier, not representative of the whole.