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It seems there's a sense of malaise falling over everything and everyone in the USA. People at large simply cannot be bothered to care about anything, including torque specs for freakin' AIRLINERS
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There are mutual recognition agreements between the regulators and if the europeans try something like that, the americans can create counter measures to even the field in a mutually undesired spiral. At this moment, the biggest enemy of Boeing is Boeing itself.
I’m not sure I understand what you are getting at. I’m assuming that the US is less likely to demand costly changes to aircraft produced by Boeing because of the implications it would have for their own economy. I wouldn’t trust France to preemptive ground a series of Airbus planes either.
"the most scrutinised transport aircraft in history"
Industrial sabotage? Grievance sabotage? Quality control? Hopefully they can track down the cause.
I do hope they can track down the cause, whatever it might be.
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You're catastrophizing a bit. This isn't an America problem it's a Boeing problem. American air travel is safer than it's ever been. Going years without a single fatality is now the norm, not an exception. The airlines are well run and do care deeply about safety. The regulators aren't perfect but generally do a good job. The NTSB is world-class. Boeing will continue to lose marketshare to Airbus and feel some pain w…
Working conditions in the USA have come to a point where many don't care because the company doesn't care about them. People are fired at will after working for 20+ years with zero shits given. There is zero loyalty and in return workers just don't care either. There are only so many checks and balances you can build in until this situation will catch up with you. Doesn't amazon have such a huge turn over that they a…
Let's not pretend layoffs are new.
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Oh nice this is the first time I've seen the AI equivalent of "Bitcoin fixes this" in the wild.
This is hilarious, but I think we might be being a bit unfair. Why couldn't you use something a camera on eyeglasses while doing the work correctly to fine tune a multimodal model, and then infer to a user wearing the same glasses? Audio reply saying "nope, try again." You would need multiple frames per second, so not today, but not that far into the future, right? edit: Zero-shot, I just took photos of me "fixing th…
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I wonder what fraction of seats/revenue come from people who take one or fewer trips per year.
1% of people represent 50% of the ~~flights~~ emissions (see thread): https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-caus...
Given that these are plug-style doors even if these were bolts in the hinges it would not risk the integrity of the fuselage seal.
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>People at large simply cannot be bothered to care about anything People care deeply about a lot of things, just not this. And why should they? When you have every business decision made either by private equity or public companies with a focus only on the next 90 days it turns out everything goes to shit. Wages are stagnant. Wealth inequality is massive. Our society is sick. Issues like this will only increase. Our…
Random aside: I looked up an Acela ticket this morning. $1000 for a first class ticket from DC to BOS. 6.5 hours. Same flight first class with Delta this week is $850. Also 6 hours with layover. Blows my mind first class rail travel is as much as first class air travel.
I've seen on Toyotas and also at Universal Studios bolts on rides are marked with paint presumably to indicate that the nut hasn't backed out. Are airliners marked in this way? Is checking the bolts simply a visual inspection, or do the inspectors need to get out a torque wrench?