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Kind of. I should have thought the engineers involved would have been good enough to design a bridge that would have lasted more than a decade, even if the regu
by 3D30497420 3y ago
Kind of. I should have thought the engineers involved would have been good enough to design a bridge that would have lasted more than a decade, even if the regulations weren't as rigorous.
- blackbear_ 3y agoSomehow I feel like it's not the engineers who needed the regulations...
- Quekid5 3y agoOne would hope... but corporate structures can apply a LOT of pressure which can end up impairing judgment or resistance to decisions by higher-level executives. It might or might not be the issue here, but it's definitely been seen in past disasters. (It's similar to the more readily/well understood "peer pressure", but even more insidious.)