I didn't say "at least we're not as bad as the French". I said you don't know how bad the French (or whoever) are because they don't share the same level of details.
If you bothered to comprehend what I wrote I'm pretty much advocating the opposite of American exceptionalism. The accident rate is pretty close across the first world. Why would the close call rate be substantially different?
Thank god aviation policy isn't dictated by people like you who have an ideological bone to pick.
You wouldn't even have the opportunity to make these peanut gallery potshots if those overly optimistic Yankees took the British/French/German route and did not give the general public access to ATC recordings.
As a passenger there's a pretty obvious difference between "swing a turn, stand on the brakes, floor it and full send" and "swing a turn, come to a stop, sit there a minute or so, stand on the brakes, floor it and full send"
> Sounds like a money problem to me. Less time between planes means more planes means more money.
Everything is a money/greed problem if you look at it through the lens of motivated reasoning.
The usage of infrastructure is mutually beneficial. The airport, the various businesses operating at it, the customers, everyone benefits per flight. Likewise you want to make that infrastructure get used as much as possible.
Would you be complaining about greed if a subway was running trains close together?
You can't have good leaders who perform as such in a world where cooperate process always strives to flatten the deviation and make people interchangeable in the name of business continuity.
And fired under exactly the kind of circumstances you'd expect someone on the spectrum to accidentally wander into without understanding the gravity of.
> Tech has changed in the last decade, to where I don't think someone "on the spectrum," could survive very long in a west coast company without being preyed upon by people who trade on other attributes.
What do you mean by "being preyed upon by people who trade on other attributes"? In my opinion their employment would be mostly limited by them unknowingly saying the kind of things that get you reported to HR and made to do some mandatory sensitivity training. East coast tech doesn't seem to care so much about that kind of thing (yet).
There's nothing to stop FB from getting out in front of a leak. They can figure out that someone is writing about a leak and pull a CNN on them before they post it on their blog or whatever.
>Even if you are the victim of an accident, there's a decent chance that there is something you could have done to avoid it.
Sounds like a politically correct way of saying "you screwed up but the other guy had a 51% chance to do something that would have avoided the outcome but you had 49%."
Kind of like how in 100% of "oops I missed my turn" rear ending the second guy pays but the first guy deserves to be slapped for doing something dumb.
FWIW I agree with you on following GPS instructions being far from the optimum.
>I can't imagine why you wouldn't want navigational assistance.
Most navigational aids are terrible at picking good routes to places outside a few very highly trafficked city.
Sure it might pick a good route if you just want shortest distance or least time but if you're willing to add 10sec to avoid a shitshow intersection you're gonna have to do that yourself.
Beyond using 10k/yr as a rule of thumb for average duty cycle mileage is a horrible indicator of vehicle wear. Engines are worn by cold start cycles, transmissions are worn by shifting, brakes get worn by stopping and suspension components get worn by potholes, etc.
Newish used cars with ~200k on them are usually good buys because often times it's someone who used it for work (salesperson, etc.) and just ground out the highway miles (which are nearly free from a wear and tear perspective)
If you bothered to comprehend what I wrote I'm pretty much advocating the opposite of American exceptionalism. The accident rate is pretty close across the first world. Why would the close call rate be substantially different?
Thank god aviation policy isn't dictated by people like you who have an ideological bone to pick.