Re:The Embarrassing History of Crap Thrown into Yellowstone’...
by 0xfeba on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:08AM
(#14156279)
> Breaking the rules/doing something a little risky can lead to some of the most magical moments in your life.
I agree. But some people lack the ability to judge the risk/reward ratio. For those people, we have signs--which unfortunately treats all risky behaviour the same.
> Could we not also perhaps apply this philosophy to safety notices/warnings/education in this tragedy?
There's a whole industry for that. For example, GM/Ford have dashboard cutouts they use for trials against them. They are example dashboards with warnings for every single thing their lawyers could think of. At some point, users just ignore the warnings. Some users never look at any. You can't get everyone to cooperate, accidents are going to happen. The point at which users ignore warnings, or how they respond to them in general are being actively studied.
I agree. But some people lack the ability to judge the risk/reward ratio. For those people, we have signs--which unfortunately treats all risky behaviour the same.
> Could we not also perhaps apply this philosophy to safety notices/warnings/education in this tragedy?
There's a whole industry for that. For example, GM/Ford have dashboard cutouts they use for trials against them. They are example dashboards with warnings for every single thing their lawyers could think of. At some point, users just ignore the warnings. Some users never look at any. You can't get everyone to cooperate, accidents are going to happen. The point at which users ignore warnings, or how they respond to them in general are being actively studied.