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Driving too fast is not analogous to mismanaging a 115 kV conductor.

• DuskStar 6y ago
  You're right - driving too fast is an active choice, while lack of maintenance is an accident.
  • dragonwriter 6y ago
    > driving too fast is an active choice, while lack of maintenance is an accident. Its quite possible for the former to be accidental and the latter deliberate, such as when you both deliberately reduce inspections and deliberately by policy eliminate the training for inspectors. And when you create a program with a name that indicates it is being used to follow up on safety problems to deceive regulators and just use it as a slush fund for capital improvements with no safety criteria. Which are just a few of the things the investigation that led to PG&E’s manslaughter convictions in the Camp Fire (not it's first felony convictions in deadly incidents!) revealed.
    • DuskStar 6y ago
      Sure, but I'd put money on the majority of people speeding doing so intentionally, and while determining whether lack of maintenance was an accident isn't trivial (and depends on the definition of 'intentional') even in the PG&E case here they did not specifically and knowingly leave a broken part on the line.
      • dragonwriter 6y ago
        > even in the PG&E case here they did not specifically and knowingly leave a broken part on the line. They specifically and knowingly failed to maintain the lines, eliminating training for the people who were supposed to inspect the lines, and took active steps to conceal those facts; the lack of maintenance was a deliberate choice, and, also, they specifically and knowingly left many broken parts on the line for extended periods of time, which was extensively documented in the investigative document produced from the investigation that led to their manslaughter charges.