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Can anyone think of a peace-time disaster at sea that was not as a result of human error? Titanic? Exxon Valdez? Costa Concordia? The 'humans are critical for s
by Theodores 12y ago
Can anyone think of a peace-time disaster at sea that was not as a result of human error? Titanic? Exxon Valdez? Costa Concordia? The 'humans are critical for safety' argument is flawed when we don't know how well robot ships will do.
Sail augmented with solar needs to make a comeback before we run out of oil, it would be cool if ships just found there own way around the globe, safely crew-less.
- mickeyp 12y agoI don't know anything about the maritime world, but playing Devil's Advocate you're suffering from selection bias: you're naming instances where humans caused the errors but not factoring in the unreported instances of humans saving the cargo, the ship, the personnel or all three.
- reportingsjr 12y agoI think this is a really good point, but it is also necessary to think about software caused errors. It only takes one error to make a disaster!
- twistedpair 12y agoMS München 1978, large freighter lost to a rouge wave. SS Edmund Fitzgerald 1975, large freighter lost in a storm Tamponas II 1981, Passenger ship sinks due to fire, 580 die Mechanical failure, fire, and weather take many of them. Just a few that come to mind above, but you can read the list too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters