The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 3 days agoWho owns the boats?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square261fedilinkarrow-up1900arrow-down116
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minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoAnd a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car. All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have. Cars can get you stranded and trapped. None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoOK? The point was, there’s a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in. Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoAnd there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car. The point is, when the engine dies you don’t drown. Edit:*
And a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car.
All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have.
Cars can get you stranded and trapped.
None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.
OK? The point was, there’s a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in.
Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded
And there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car.
The point is, when the engine dies you don’t drown.
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