It’s silly IMO to have two different outputs. You can get a poverty spec Ranger with full power, having full power at low prices makes it easier to justify over a fullsize truck.

It’s still entirely possible to recognize the need to be cautious, but to be totally ignorant of the specific danger points.

I dunno man, your position is obviously based on a wealth of information and experience that you possess. Your argument seems disingenuous in that you’re equating the decisions you would make (having a specific knowledge of the dangers) to the decisions this person should have made (having only a vague or no…

If it’s so obvious, why are pictures like you’ve posted elsewhere needed? What makes it obvious? It can’t be seen, and sight is a huge reliance for people. It may be loud, but so is an entire running helicopter, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was wearing hearing protection. So what exactly is so obviously “not a…

How is he supposed to recognize he’s in a dangrous situation, if no one told him about the dangers. Especially when you can’t see the dangrous bit. People aren’t good at assessing dangers of complex mechanical devices. That’s why training, and typically large bright warning signs exist on dangerous mechanisms.  We…

the tail rotor in that diagram isn’t even in the red. 

I don’t want to suggest it’s all the crews fault, but it should be obvious that not everyone knows how to safetly navigate around a recently landed helicopter. Should he have been more cautious? Yes. But if the sister is right that there was no instruction/protocols, how would he know? I know a tail rotor exists even…

You can’t see the spinning blade.

The numbers don’t seem impressive because MPG is actually not a great way of expressing fuel economy. In MPG, 14 -> 22 seems small, but in Liters-Per-100km, 16.8 -> 10.7 liters seems more meaningful (that’s a 36% decrease is fuel use). The average American drives about 15,000 miles each year, so at 14mpg=1072…

And he’ll take credit for it going down.

wait, in a market driven economy lowered demand will decrease prices ? well I never 

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“By this logic, you can arbitrarily label anything a tool if it can be said it has a purpose.”

“A gun is not a tool.”

In this scenario, “they” didn’t create anything. YOU booked the tickets. YOU chose not to book seats together. YOU chose to board the plane knowing full well that you weren’t seated next to your child.

James Riley, Barrett’s father, had asked Tesla to install a speed limiter on the car after the teen received a 112 mph ticket in a 50 mph zone.

The airline didn’t deny you the ability to sit next to your child, you chose to put your child in a seat separated from you. You chose not to book seats together when you booked the tickets. You then chose to board the airplane knowing you’d be seated separately from your child - unless the airline forced you on the…

I get the basic economy thing, but that’s a fare class, not a section of the plane. There are people in the back that paid for a seat assignment, mixed with people that take their chances. If a family of five took their chances that they could have a parent near their three kids, and now someone who paid an extra $25…

No, but an attempt at rehabilitation should be made. That’s something that doesn’t happen. There’s no point in putting someone in jail if there’s absolutely no attempt to make sure they can reintegrate into society and not recommit. 

Federal Regulation on a Pre-Flight Inspection. The pilot could have had their license stripped / been fined had they not asked.