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This is also why most defense companies are run almost entirely by engineers. Even though they're not required to be, they organize themselves that way to ensur
by hardolaf 5y ago
This is also why most defense companies are run almost entirely by engineers. Even though they're not required to be, they organize themselves that way to ensure a culture of design excellence. It's better to fail to deliver a product than to deliver a product that will kill people.
- formerly_proven 5y ago> defense companies ... than to deliver a product that will kill people Isn't that the point?
- hardolaf 5y agoMost products defense companies produce are to prevent people from dying or to do completely tangential tasks.
- julienfr112 5y agoBoeing and their famous 737 max screwup where run by engineers with solid work and engineering ethic ?
- hardolaf 5y agoThe decision to sell a safety feature as an optional extra was pushed by bean counters.
- amelius 5y agoIs this what went wrong at Boeing? Also, how is Tesla structured? Are software engineers working on autopilot functionality managed by true engineers?
- hardolaf 5y agoBoeing ended up getting run by bean counters with the eventual expected results where the bean counters wanted to charge for a safety feature. Magically, the planes with the safety feature (every single plane sold to USA, Canada, and EU based airlines) had no issues. The ones sold to nations where they were trying to save money, had the issues that we all know of today. As for how Tesla is structured, well it's Musk at the top who delegates everything and spends his time on Twitter trying to boost the stock price to hit his quarterly stock price goals. As for if they're managed by engineers, I have no clue.