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There's a degree of irony in that the reason air travel is so safe is because air travel safety is so heavily regulated.
by YCode 9y ago
There's a degree of irony in that the reason air travel is so safe is because air travel safety is so heavily regulated.
- clarkmoody 9y agoOh, you know, because the quickest way to go out of business is to kill your customers...
- kartan 9y ago> Oh, you know, because the quickest way to go out of business is to kill your customers... Why use more fuel than needed in a flight, if you are going to get there anyway? Is that safety measure so important? Without regulations this will be more common: "Colombia's Civil Aeronautics agency concluded in its investigation that the plan for the flight operated by Bolivia-based charter company LaMia did not meet international standards." "Neither the company nor Bolivian authorities should have allowed the plane to take off with the flight plan submitted, said Freddy Bonilla, air safety secretary for Colombia's aviation authority." http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/chapecoense-plane-crash-cause-human-error-not-enough-fuel-colombia-a7497026.html http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/ch... Also, Tabaco happens. Kill your customers, get new ones.
- admax88q 9y agoKilling them slowly is fine. See tobacco or fast food. Killing them quickly and violently tends to go poorly.
- Mz 9y ago..quickly, violently and en masse in a manner in which you have no hope of plausible deniability. ("But, maybe it wasn't the crash that killed all 200+ passengers. Correlation does not prove causation.")
- clarkmoody 9y agoUmm, tobacco kills over a lifetime of product usage. Aircraft kill quickly, violently, and in headline-leading ways...
- ssambros 9y agoMarkets don't usually optimize for safety, or security, for that matter.
- bogomipz 9y agoThere's many reasons why air travel is so safe - fly-by-wire, GPS, collision avoidance systems, improvements in aerospace engineering and design are all contributors. Regulation is only part of the reason it is not "the" reason.
- 1_2__3 9y agoI'm going to guess your unspoken assertion is that these things would have happened anyway - or even faster, natch! - had the government not gotten involved and mandated ever-stricter safety requirements. I do not agree.
- bogomipz 9y agoI don't have any "unspoken assertion", I really don't understand your comment. What is "natch"? The FAA's issuing of new safety regulations has historically been reactionary, they are generally enacted in response to an accident or specific incident. It is actually only very recently that they have shifted from a reactive event based system to a proactive form of risk management.
- stevenwoo 9y agonatch is American slang for naturally, phonetically matching the first syllable of the word.
- jessaustin 9y agoHas anyone besides Stan Lee actually used this word? Has he used it since the 1980s?
- shuntress 9y agoI think the point is that many of these technologies wouldn't be implemented or would be done so poorly were there no regulation.
- marcosdumay 9y agoAir travel is so safe because people have a disproportionate amount of care towards it. The amount of regulation comes from that, as does the industry embracing safer procedures by itself.