• hddsx@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      That’s not true. I can think of a quick change that will greatly improve air safety: ground every single plane, effective immediately.

      Would it affect my upcoming vacation? Yes. But would it work? Yes.

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          22 hours ago

          No. I am very good at being sarcastic for pedantic reasons. Now, coming up with a suitable solution is hard

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            11 hours ago

            You dont make flying planes safer by not flying them the same way you dont become a safer driver because you dont drive.

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              23 minutes ago

              Makes sense but unlike with driving, you can literally shutdown controlled airspace. So imagine if cars all had identifiers that could be tracked remotely (like ADS-B) and you could shutdown all driving in a given city - including busses. That would drop the accidents down to 0.

              While a really stupid idea that would piss everyone off, it would allow the government time to get their shit together and preventing people from dying on airports and in the air.

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        2 days ago

        Good thing they saved us a bunch of money by shutting everything down then. They can spend the pentagons sushi budget on quickly training some safe operators.