Isn’t the tech billionaire motto “forget certifications, let’s break stuff...”

Or is that just on submersibles? 

It’s not just the RTI test. It’s the combination of it along with the rest of the truck. That’s why the comparisons to the CT examples make no sense.

Yeah I'll take a Model T. It'll run on damn near anything, parts are easier to get than for a Tesla, and it won't get stranded by a carwash. 

The fact that you do not think tires would affect any sort of ascent test is silly. I know what this test is, I’ve done several in multiple vehicles.

Anyone else think the body panels in the lead image look embarrassingly bad?

https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/suspension-articulation-rti-tracker.1275633/

I suspect you’re correct about the buyers, but it’s another case of Elmo just straight up lying about....everything. The people who were going to buy this monstrosity would have bought it regardless of its capabilities. Even if it could only tow 100 lbs, it probably wouldn’t have affected sales, but Elmo just doesn’t…

Remember, because of the rapid pressure change inside the sub, there’s an excellent chance that for a fraction of a second the occupants were on fire before they were crushed.

All we need to do now is drop regulations for personal jets and yachts 

What’s the old saying? “Safety rules, processes, procedures and regulation are written in blood.”

This was essentially Ian Malcolm’s argument in the Jurassic Park novels: Stockton Rush got so caught up in whether he could make this sub out of carbon fiber and $50 gamepads that he never asked himself if he should do it.

Change regulation to code.

No no, you don’t understand: if you’re rich, such “laws of physics” do not apply to you.

Didn’t one of their own safety officers refuse to certify the vehicle? And the company that made the port window? Forget regulations - they couldn’t even convince their own people to get on that death trap.

It’s a subset of the Youtube Expert phenomenon. You can use Youtube to do all sorts of things, instead of paying an expert. But, there are some things that you shouldn’t do by yourself, even if Youtube is teaching you.

I am so tired of this, “lets disrupt the system” “everyone can be an expert” “science is just a conspiracy” garbage. We stand on the shoulders of giants who have given yes the wonders of science and technology we have today and we are diving off those shoulders to pile drive into the cold unyielding ground. We are all…

You know what? I’m good with seeing pictures of the Titanic. Send the ROVs down to the dead-in-a-millisecond depths and project the images on a big screen. I’ll pretend that the wreck is 5 feet in front of me from 12,000 feet above it.

Not that it really protects Oceangate in reality, but the release they signed pretty clearly stated that they could become fish chum doing this.

You crushed it bro.

It was obviously heavily implied that it was safe,... Do you honestly think that they would get many takers if they advertised “many experienced submariners have told me that this sub is definitely a death trap”?