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Private plane manufacturers went bankrupt, but more importantly, plane crashes have become incredibly rare.
by mehlmao 5y ago
Private plane manufacturers went bankrupt, but more importantly, plane crashes have become incredibly rare.
- ARandomerDude 5y agoTrue but that's the trivial case. You'll never get food poisoning if we outlaw food, never get into a car accident if we outlaw cars, ... The point is there should be a better way that just pull the plug on anything potentially unsafe.
- pjmlp 5y agoGenerally I get food poisoning when the restaurant, supermarket or producer fails to follow the health standards it is obliged by law. And then I can sue them to death or make a report to health authorities that will act accordingly.
- michaelnik 5y agoIn parallel the GA planes used got old. Imagine the same happening for the software!!! In 2000, the average age of the nation's 150,000 single-engine fleet was more than 30 years. By 2020, the average age could approach 50 years https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/small_airplanes/cos/aging_aircraft/media/aging_aircraft_best_practices_booklet.pdf https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/small...
- michaelnik 5y agoI don't know about "rare", since 1999 the broadest "accident" statistic fluctuates around 6 per 100,000h Notice that "accident" definition conveniently excludes tons of partial failures! (see the legalese of 49 CFR § 830.2 - Definitions.) To make parallel with broader discussion, the security failing of software could be considered "partial failures"...