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Who maintains the mandated dependencies? Who performs certification? What prevents regulatory capture?
by maxwell 2y ago
Who maintains the mandated dependencies? Who performs certification?
What prevents regulatory capture?
- exe34 2y agohow does it work for aircrafts? how does it work for anti-money laundering policies?
- lucianbr 2y agoThe way it works for aircraft is that now it's getting prohibitively expensive to design new planes. But new planes are still needed, so Boeing found a solution, and made the 737-MAX which is in theory an upgrade that does not require re-certification, but is in fact different enough that the differences lead to hundreds of deaths. Perhaps without the certifications lots more people would have died. I'm just an armchair analyst. Just food for thought.
- gorft 2y agoUh, the MAX was a disaster because Boeing is run by MBAs instead of engineers. Regulation is why air travel is remarkably safe. Those rules are written in blood, something everyone here conveniently seems to forget.
- lucianbr 2y agoSo you write regulations for software development, but software companies run by MBAs instead of engineers can still cause disasters. I guess as long as disasters are rare, it's a win. Is Fujitsu run by engineers?
- exe34 2y agolots of people did die without the regulations!
- gorft 2y agoFamously, civil engineering has never solved this problem, either, leading to the sad state of affairs in which we find ourselves today, wherein no bridges have been built anywhere.
- oersted 2y agoI don't understand the confusion, practically everything we interact with in our daily lives is regulated and goes through certification processes, just look at how all that is done. Food, drugs, healthcare, consumer products, chemicals, cars, planes, trains, buildings, utilities, energy, infrastructure, salaries, loans, investments, accounting... Even media requires some licenses, receives age ratings, and has restrictions on advertising. It's not rocket science, this is normal for every single other industry.
- maxwell 2y agoAnd that has resulted in massive industrial consolidation and lack of innovation in food, drugs, healthcare, consumer products, chemicals, automotive/aerospace/locomotive manufacturing, construction, utilities, energy, payments, finance, accounting, and media outside "tech," where we manage our own dependencies. Rocket science is one of the few industries that's actually seeing active innovation.