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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by SwetDrems on Thursday July 21, 2022 @04:59PM (#32184973)
What other engineering field has acceptable death rates? We design roads EXPECTING people to die on them. Insane.
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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by BitwiseFool on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:19PM (#32186467)
>"What other engineering field has acceptable death rates?"

I'd say virtually all of them, in some form or fashion. Everything has a tradeoff. There is an acceptable death rate electrocution, if there wasn't we wouldn't allow our homes to have electricity.

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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by jjav on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:56PM (#32187565)
> What other engineering field has acceptable death rates?

All of them?

I can't think of any engineering area which has a mandate of guaranteeing it will be 100% impossible to have an accident with the product, or it doesn't get built. Can you?

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