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I agree that car safety and regulations (and probably even more importantly, replacing car trips with safer modes of transport wherever possible) are more press
by twiss 3y ago
I agree that car safety and regulations (and probably even more importantly, replacing car trips with safer modes of transport wherever possible) are more pressing than submarine safety regulations, but why does one preclude the other? We should have both.
- RandomBK 3y agoInstead of targeted regulation specific to submarines, I would look at the laws around legal liability and depth of disclosures. That would scale across many more types of activity rather than any single one. 1. Is what you're doing dangerous? 2. Did you tell your customers about the danger? 3. Do they really understand the danger, including past incidents? 4. Is anyone else being harmed or are you just gambling your own life? Even then, I would posit that this case probably passes this bar - OceanGate was quite clear in their waiver and there's a level of due diligence that a reasonable person spending 250K should be expected to make.