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This is exactly why regulations such as professional engineering licenses were put into place. You don’t want someone with that mentality building a bridge.
by dasudasu 6y ago
This is exactly why regulations such as professional engineering licenses were put into place. You don’t want someone with that mentality building a bridge.
- tpmx 6y agoNo, this is exactly why vehicle regulations were put into place. Regulate and validate the vehicles and their software updates, not the engineers. Edit: Or get used to our field moving as slowly as the bridge building field.
- hervature 6y agoHuh? Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. That’s a pretty fast change. Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation. It alters the incentives to align the innovation with public benefit. If properly caring for society is too slow for you, your part of the problem.
- tpmx 6y ago> Bridges stopped failing when engineers were held responsible. Oh did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E2%80%93present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E... Edit: > Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation. Citation required. This is strongly non-intuitive.
- josefx 6y ago> Oh did they? First one only sagged, no catastrophic failure, no deaths, no injuries. A few more on that list were over a hundred years old. Not sure when he started holding engineers responsible. Then you have the bridges rammed by ships, terrorism, construction accidents, a wooden suspension bridge in the middle of nowhere that had an upper limit of three and was used by seventy, etc. . Seems as if the bridges themselves have held up fairly well.
- jojobas 6y agoEngineering education is designed to ensure you know better than risking lives for fun or profit. It doesn't prevent you from trying to introduce new technology as long as risk is acceptable. Otherwise we'd still ride horse carriages (with special horses bred to be slow).