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Is that not required by law? Surely the engineers thought about this scenario and advised management to include a safety limit switch. Did management just ignor
by jimbob45 6y ago
Is that not required by law? Surely the engineers thought about this scenario and advised management to include a safety limit switch. Did management just ignore the engineers?
This seems like another Ford Pinto where the company decided it was cheaper to settle the lawsuits than fix the product.
- bdibs 6y ago"Move fast and break things." Edit: I didn’t mean to offend, or to be morbid. I was making a point about how that particular mindset often doesn’t lead to products that care about “boring” things like safety or long term reliability.
- HenryBemis 6y agoI fear that some engineer(s) probably said at some point: what if a puppy/toddler is grabbed/pinched/pulled underneath? At which moment the product director got a mini heart-attack, sensed his/her bonus was at stake, and immediately asked the engineer(s) to be transferred to other projects. I have a favorie Dilbert for such cases: https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-04-10 https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-04-10 "Not a team player"