12-12-2020, 04:27 PM
(12-12-2020, 03:24 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-12-2020, 11:28 AM)jamincan Wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. The 737 MAX saga, which laid bare the regulatory capture of the FAA, somehow demonstrates that the system is working as intended and improving?
It seems to me that it clearly demonstrates that the system was not working as intended and it was only with immense public scrutiny and basically the entire world disregarding the FAA's leadership on the matter and taking steps to ground the 737MAX that the FAA finally took steps to correct the situation with the 737MAX. That's not how the system is supposed to work. Furthermore, it's not clear to me that the US government has actually corrected the core problems at the FAA that lead to this situation. It's not remarkable that a person or agency will act well when under public scrutiny, it's quite another thing for them to act well as a matter of course.
Right. This was the point I was trying to make. Air travel regulations aren't perfect, either.
Nobody is saying airline regulations are perfect. But they are a million times more effective than road regulations, and yet get a million times the scrutiny.
are you suggesting that because airline regulations aren’t perfect, that they can’t inform how to improve other regulations?