Timeline for Why are commercial flights not equipped with parachutes for the passengers?
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| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:34 | comment | added | The Wandering Dev Manager | No, there is no similarity. The point isn't adding safety features (airbags are a balloon in most people's eyes), it's reminding people that they are miles up at high speeds and their safety/existence is totally reliant on the metal tube they are in. Many people don't want to think about that. A better analogy would have been to offer parachutes in skyscrapers in case of 9/11 style attacks, many would think twice about going to high floors. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | David Richerby | By that argument, car sales should have dipped after airbags became standard. | |
| Mar 15, 2014 at 10:25 | comment | added | The Wandering Dev Manager | No of course not. Telling my wife that is some situations she may need to put life jackets on herself and two kids snd slide down an inflatable slide to ground or water is one thing. Saying there's a chance she may need to get them into parachutes and jump out with them as a plane hurtles to the ground is another, having parachutes reminds them constantly that this may happen, and many will start to think twice. | |
| Mar 15, 2014 at 10:16 | comment | added | DeltaLima♦ | I don't agree that adding safety measures implies that something is not safe. They do provide emergency slides and life vests. Isn't that basically in the same category? | |
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| Mar 15, 2014 at 9:26 | history | answered | The Wandering Dev Manager | CC BY-SA 3.0 |