simpleton comments on Research methods - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Swimmer963 22 February 2011 06:10AM

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Comment author: simpleton 22 February 2011 09:06:58PM 3 points [-]

For those of you who watch Breaking Bad, the disaster at the end of Season 3 probably wouldn't have happened if the US adopted a similar system.

When I saw that episode, my first thought was that it would be extraordinarily unlikely in the US, no matter how badly ATC messed up. TCAS has turned mid-air collisions between airliners into an almost nonexistent type of accident.

Comment author: Aurini 23 February 2011 07:09:17PM 0 points [-]

After writing that I thought "Actually, it probably still would have happened, because it's such a great plot element." Rule of Cool.