Here is a sad story of several skiers dying in avalanches. There is a lesson about design in the article, though.
Saugstad, who skis frequently in Europe, where inflatable emergency air bags are popular in the backcountry, opened hers. It allowed her to stay largely on the slide's surface.
"Hey, I though of that! That's my idea!" People think someone else stole their idea when in fact countless people have the same idea at the same time. I have no idea who re-purposed a car crash-bag to skier safety, but it has been done.
This is also why we go shopping for our new idea. We may think it is new, but someone else may have already done it.
And the third lesson is when it comes to safety innovations, the result is often we spend the safety margin. As safety gear makes our normal activities more safe, we begin to push the limits, because we feel safer with our new gear. Regulations act this way too, as we feel safer due to whatever, we begin to be more reckless. We all have tolerance for X amount of risk. We'll go to that level.
Costs begin to go up when the eventual disaster occurs in ever more extreme places, and we foot the bill to recover people. This is why the state has begun to charge people to extricate them from their disasters.
Saugstad, who skis frequently in Europe, where inflatable emergency air bags are popular in the backcountry, opened hers. It allowed her to stay largely on the slide's surface.
"Hey, I though of that! That's my idea!" People think someone else stole their idea when in fact countless people have the same idea at the same time. I have no idea who re-purposed a car crash-bag to skier safety, but it has been done.
This is also why we go shopping for our new idea. We may think it is new, but someone else may have already done it.
And the third lesson is when it comes to safety innovations, the result is often we spend the safety margin. As safety gear makes our normal activities more safe, we begin to push the limits, because we feel safer with our new gear. Regulations act this way too, as we feel safer due to whatever, we begin to be more reckless. We all have tolerance for X amount of risk. We'll go to that level.
Costs begin to go up when the eventual disaster occurs in ever more extreme places, and we foot the bill to recover people. This is why the state has begun to charge people to extricate them from their disasters.
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