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How hard it is to extinguish is vastly, vastly less important than ‘does it stop people safely escaping’ and ‘does it overwhelm the safety equipment’. It is ob
by Veedrac 2y ago
How hard it is to extinguish is vastly, vastly less important than ‘does it stop people safely escaping’ and ‘does it overwhelm the safety equipment’.
It is obvious that having a huge goods fire from a commercial truck that shuts down people's vehicles is dangerous; that directly leads to death and directly prevents rescue. It is obvious that having isolated, separately functioning vehicles that can drive away, and a fire from a specific, planned-for factor of an understood quantity has a comparatively low potential for causing death.
- collingreen 2y ago"Obviously" is doing a lot of work here. I liked the article and thought it was a fun peek deeper into the regulatory and safety manual side of things. You attacking it for being really weird and then about how _obviously_ it is or isn't certain ways compared to historic fires in other tunnels feels forced and out of place to me.
- Veedrac 2y agoI said the fire safety comparisons were reasonable and don't think, nor did I state, that the article was actively bad there. My pushback here was to the HN comment claiming the risk was much worse than the historic comparisons, which the article didn't do. I agree the article was fun and had charm. My criticisms were more narrow than that.