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If you remove enough of them, then the car is much lighter: in some scenarios (such as when the car has no occupants), that makes it much safer. Of course, thes
by wizzwizz4 1y ago
If you remove enough of them, then the car is much lighter: in some scenarios (such as when the car has no occupants), that makes it much safer. Of course, these scenarios are relatively rare – but a "sane engineer" could easily make an argument along these lines.
- timschmidt 1y agoStrong disagree. Best practice is to evaluate the likelihood of scenarios along with potential negative impacts and your contrived scenario fails on both counts. It would not survive review. If you are lucky, your senior engineer may consider it a joke. Unlucky and you might be the joke for suggesting it. Either way you'd be liable for such a decision, were it to make it into a production vehicle and result in a death. Which is why many engineers wear the ring. Folks do love to argue though.