Wow. What kind of hubris could look past that huge red flag?
Apparently the kind that thinks it is interesting that it deforms by several inches and not scary
The "bad-boy" disruptive innovator kind that doesn't play by the rules and that's worshiped in SV because he makes his wealth playing fast and loose around old stuffy bureaucratic regulations made by "evil old men" to gatekeep innovators like him from entering the naval market held by centuries year old corporations who actually know what they're doing.
The problem for him was that, unlike consumer tech, the laws of physics can't be disrupted. He'd tell you that himself if he'd still be alive. Shame that four other people had to perish to prove him wrong.
No need to generalize. (In fact as I understood it he haunted the Pacific Northwest.)
I hope it changes, bacause as we have seen it kills people, litterally. Titan was actually worse than Titanic, because the engineering of Titanic was actually sound for the time, saftey procedures and seamanship were not. The latter changed significantly after the Titanic, lets hope that this SV stained engineering culture will, too, after Titan.
underground traffic jam
Count me out, I'm telecommuting.
It’s all relative. Good engineering doesn’t mean higher number.
No one knows what the FOS for this sub was. Given the information from the CEO, things like that were just slowing down innovation!
EDIT: Not all rockets, just using an example.
I don't think it was outright hubris. I think it was commercial necessity, driven by the business model that OceanGate used: Rush needed rich tourists to fund the business, and he got rich tourists by offering them a close-up view of a famous shipwreck. To give his passengers a view that they were willing to pay for, he needed an oversized viewport.
He had already proven this business model with his earlier submarines, so it is understandable that he wanted to carry it on as he built vehicles intended to go deeper. Less understandable is that he set aside the reality that a large-enough viewport could not actually be safely procured. That's not really hubris though, just plain old profit-driven idiocy. The whole thing feels like it has less in common with the Titanic and more in common with the Ford Pinto.
Perhaps a lawyer for a plaintiff with deep pockets will call for such a demonstration to be performed.
The Titan made it a few times.
The same kind that is proud of saving money by buying carbon fiber for the craft at a significant discount from Boeing because it is surplus that is too old to be considered safe for aviation use, says “safety is pure waste”, etc.
The kind that would scrap ASICs for a Walmart PC using 100% Python because "those damned quant geeks don't know REAL innovation".