On 11/25/11 12:02 , Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 11/25/11 11:34 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote: > >> Cars generically cause at lot more deaths than faulty traffic >> controllers 13.2 per 100,000 population in the US annually. > > The cars don't (often) cause them. The drivers do. Yes, there are the > rare mechanical failures but the most likely cause is wetware. Ditto > airplane crashes. A mild example:
while they may well have otherwise been runover by an oxcart in the absence of automobiles, if they we're behind the wheel of a complex 2 ton machine there would be no accident. > http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X18632 > > -- > Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net > Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ > Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV >
