• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
    22·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • HikingVet
      21·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
        22·
        24 hours ago

        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

        • HikingVet
          22·
          23 hours ago

          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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