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> but "good enough" is the gold standard in engineering Your post does a dis-service to the 350+ who died. Nobody agrees that using one external sensor on the
by redis_mlc 7y ago
> but "good enough" is the gold standard in engineering
Your post does a dis-service to the 350+ who died.
Nobody agrees that using one external sensor on the 737 MAX that is subject to weather, bird strikes and ground handling damage was nearly good enough.
- Spivak 7y agoYou're arguing from two different perspectives. Engineering is about producing an deliverables that just meet spec. If someone orders a temperature sensor that they ask to be 1° accurate then you are wasting your time designing something better^. However the engineers in question at Boeing clearly failed to produce a design that performed to spec in normal operating conditions. ^ Yes, there are scaling factors where it might be cheaper to design a 0.1° accurate sensor and sell it to everyone because it would be more effort having two production lines but that's an optimization.
- redis_mlc 7y ago> You're arguing from two different perspectives. Your comment doesn't make any sense in the English language. Nobody ordered a sensor system that was unreliable, so no idea what you're talking about.
- lutorm 7y agoExactly. It was obviously not "good enough", so they failed to meet that standard. That's my point.