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Comment by mikeyouse | Hacker News Reader

Older bridges no, but newer bridges should absolutely. The Bay Bridge was struck in 2007 and came away mostly unscathed due to earlier efforts to prevent catastrophic damage in that scenario;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosco_Busan_oil_spill

Though the Maryland accident looks like it struck it dead on - just a massive amount of energy to absorb.

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'The Bay Bridge' refers to something else in this part of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge

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It's assumed that everyone comes from California unless proven otherwise.

In my defense, the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge is older and carries more 4x more traffic than the "other" Bay bridge! But yeah, given that the Chesapeake one is just down the road from the bridge that collapsed, I get the confusion.

> SF-Oakland Bay Bridge is older

In a Bridge of Theseus sort of way. The entire Eastern span is very new, a lot of the approaches have been rearranged, and major components of the Western span has been replaced over the years. But I guess none of this affects the age of the bridge, at least in Wikipedia’s estimation :)

This is why I come to HN, for Ship of Theseus references.

Glancing blow of the Cosco Busan was a big deal but it wasn't a direct impact. Different order of the magnitude of forces that impact. Not comparable.

Yes. Dolphins and protective features for this sort of scenario are more standars now.

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