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It will _always_ possible after an major airliner crash to say that one particular thing that would have prevented it would have been worth the cost. But inves
by marshray 8y ago
It will _always_ possible after an major airliner crash to say that one particular thing that would have prevented it would have been worth the cost.
But investing in just the specific mitigation needed to prevent the next disaster is not an option that we have. We only get to choose a level of investment in protection against classes of risks based on human judgement of the probabilities involved.
- anoncake 8y agoThe feature in question is a warning light if two sensors disagree. You could implement that with a microcontroller, an LED and two wires. In practice, it might not even require additional hardware at all. We do know in advance that its worth the cost because the cost is absolutely neglible.