12-12-2020, 12:15 AM
(12-11-2020, 10:23 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-11-2020, 12:43 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: But ultimately, I don't know how you end up with regulations like for airplanes, which seem to be largely well designed and evidence based.
See Exhibit A: FAA certification of the Boeing 737 MAX. The process was neither well-designed nor evidence-based. As a result, hundreds of people died.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.
The FAA certification of the 737 MAX was flawed. Those flaws have been studied, and are working to be corrected. Hundreds of people died, or, approximately the same number of people who died as a result of cars in the past 2-3 hours. Even if we just look at Canada, you're looking at the last month or two of road deaths.
This is the kind of exception which proves the rule, yes, our systems are failable, but some of our systems are actually working reasonably well, and improving, while others are a complete failure (although I won't argue that road safety isn't improving in *some* places).