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traddad
Jan 23, 2012, 6:42 AM
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dan2see wrote: scrapedape wrote: Do they know what caused it? It certainly wasn't the ship's navigation equipment, It wans't the sonar, radar, satellite nav, or Tacan. My Honda Civic can navigate better than that, and it knows how not to skid on ice. A Ford Focus can park itself. The captain is negligent. The crew are incompetent. The home-office administrators are crazy. The owners are greedy. Did I miss anyone?
I think you hit the nail on the head. The way corporate capitalism is structured, businesses often feel compelled cut corners in order to compete in the marketplace. I heard this referred to as "toumbstone engineering" in reference to the airline industry. One example given at the time was the airline's reluctance to install a system that could extinguish in-flight fires. The reason given was weight. The fire extinguisher system weighed roughly the same as the inflight entertainment system they subsequently installed. Most people don't give a rat's ass about fire extinguishers, if there's no fire. They do, howener, care who won American Idol.
I'm sure, if you were to dig deep enough, that you'd find that corners were cut somewhere in the name of money. Whether in staffing, egress systems or other things that would have made a negligent act like this survivable.
(This post was edited by traddad on Jan 23, 2012, 6:43 AM)
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