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You'll see bits and pieces of it in other places, for example, the dual independent braking system in all cars. But the auto engineers failed to generalize that into the car's computer controls.

The Fukushima and Deepwater Horizon disasters show how other industries fail at applying the concept. Reading the sequence of failures in those just makes me grind my teeth. For example, venting the hydrogen overpressure, good idea. Venting it into an enclosed space with sparking electrical equipment, spectacularly dumb. (And the list goes on and one with both disasters.)

Nobody has taken it to heart and applied it pervasively like the airframe industry.



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