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And more safety is a bad thing... how?

Should the airline industry become more like the software eng industry, which has had such great success in producing solid and safe products?

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Safety comes at a cost. If you want to makes planes ultimately safe, you would not allow them to fly, period. Just like NASA has now an objective of "safe flights" and basically does not send humans in space anymore because they can't guarantee zero fatality.

Safety is not a binary variable: it's a trade-off vs economical factors and the cost of each ticket. Since some people have to fly anyway, this means decreased spending in other areas of the economy.

But planes are ultimately safe, to the extent that the major US airlines often go a whole year with zero passenger deaths. And this safety doesn't even cost more; it's actually cheaper than the alternative when you net out all the costs.

> this safety doesn't even cost more; it's actually cheaper than the alternative when you net out all the costs.

You can't just drop an argument destroying bomb like this with no citation

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