Originally Posted by R-Wells
Thats just it, there is only one size of human error.
Only the consequences can measured.
This is not like drunk driving, or reading the news paper while you drive or text messaging or talking on the cell phone.
You could impose penalties on those things and have an affect.
But in the case of plain ole human error you could euthanize every driver that has an unexplainable accident and they will still happen in the same numbers, until all the humans were gone.
Or should I say untill all of the cagers are gone.
No, errors come in all sizes... from fender benders to launching rockets with O-rings under the wrong conditions.
All errors are not the same. Some mistakes require a series of small judgement errors to compound before they occur. Like the O-ring.
A large truck, with a sign, moving slowing, with flashing lights... it takes a series of errors to compound before one could hit that.
It is not as if it was not visible for a some distance... it is not as if it was not marked... it is not as if it did not display some hazard indicator... All of those things had to be overlooked. Just like it took a committee to launch a rocket under the wrong conditions. No single error.
That is my point. This was not a "simple" error.