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>The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives. That's just unrealis
by drstewart 8y ago
>The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives.
That's just unrealistic. Unless you want plane and car rides to cost as much as a trip to space, after all, since everything would need to be engineered to that level of quality.
- Stryder 8y agoFinish reading first, and then spend some time thinking before responding. I said: "Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unacceptable."
- rmrfrmrf 8y agoI continue to be fascinated with consumers who assume the role of shareholder in times of crisis, even against their own interests.
- traek 8y agoAffordable air travel is in most people's interests.
- objektif 8y agoSafe travel surprasses affordable for ALL customers not most.
- lovemenot 8y agoNeither safe nor affordable are booleans. They are on a scale, and a dependency exists between them. Anybody may have a different judgement with respect to exactly where on the scale is appropriate, but we cannot just pretend that there's no trade-off to be made. Or that absolute safety is even a possibility.
- CamperBob2 8y agoIt's pretty freaking safe, isn't it? We've literally had zero-fatality years in the US. That doesn't happen through good luck alone. Clearly the manufacturers, regulators, and operators are doing almost everything right.
- tomp 8y agoThen why do people still drive (i.e. use cars)?
- objektif 8y agoBecause they think it is safe.
- ionised 8y ago'most people' don't fly at all
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- Cyph0n 8y agoTalk about a strawman, mate.
- ddalex 8y agoOr you could fly Airbus.
- drstewart 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Airbus_A320_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...