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minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoDo you think that it suddenly loses buoyancy? Edit: dead implies no power, what boat requires power to float? Last I checked a dead car doesn’t erupt into flames when the power plant dies, or the transmission blows. Boats don’t sink because they can’t go forward. You can row a powerless boat like you can push a dead car.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 day agoThere are many failure modes on a boat. An engine failure can mean running around on rocks and wrecking the hull, or a failure of a through hull fitting can flood the boat, or a failure of the hull itself.
minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoAnd a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car. All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have. Cars can get you stranded and trapped. None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·24 hours agoOK? The point was, there’s a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in. Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded
minus-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-223 hours agoAnd there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car. The point is, when the engine dies you don’t drown. Edit:*
Do you think that it suddenly loses buoyancy?
Edit: dead implies no power, what boat requires power to float?
Last I checked a dead car doesn’t erupt into flames when the power plant dies, or the transmission blows.
Boats don’t sink because they can’t go forward.
You can row a powerless boat like you can push a dead car.
There are many failure modes on a boat.
An engine failure can mean running around on rocks and wrecking the hull, or a failure of a through hull fitting can flood the boat, or a failure of the hull itself.
And a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car.
All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have.
Cars can get you stranded and trapped.
None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.
OK? The point was, there’s a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in.
Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded
And there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car.
The point is, when the engine dies you don’t drown.
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