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You can make up 1000 different potential failure modes to try and make yourself feel smart.
by LewisVerstappen 3y ago
You can make up 1000 different potential failure modes to try and make yourself feel smart.
- mulmen 3y agoAnd you can ignore those failure modes and kill hundreds of people at a time.
- freeopinion 3y agoDid you conduct the extensive study into all the possible failure modes if we allow pilots to wear smart watches? Or cork-soled shoes? It is appropriate to use caution and care. You are right about that. It is obstructionist to demand every possible mode of failure be used as an excuse to block progress. It is possible to use flaky hardware that will increase risk. But it isn't that hard or expensive to use reasonable care to avoid it while dramatically improving the tech. To pretend that any new tech would automatically lead to hundreds of deaths and should therefore never be considered is ridiculous on its face.
- mulmen 3y agoAirlines have dress codes for pilots. “Reasonable care” is expensive for airline grade hardware. You don’t just add features because they sound good. You don’t throw tech at the wall and see what sticks. You engineer reasonable solutions to real problems. It’s nothing like building a webpage.