For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).
They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?
Again. If you are used to going raftign or climbing with orgs, you are used to the complete nonsense “YOU WILL DIE” waivers. While a billionaire could afford it, I don’t think any of us expect them to commission a study to evaluate the integrity of every pothole in every road they ever travel on.
And a lot of these giant red flags like “they used a game controller” or “the lead designers weren’t old white dudes and were instead new grads” are… not at all red flags and are all very normal. There is a LOT of messed up stuff with this sub, but it also mostly highlights how little the average person understands about just how janky all of this is by default.
I mean, you yourself are talking about how you expect heavy regulation for all those “extreme sports” activity companies and… there really isn’t. Most of the regulation comes from their insurance companies and even those are severely lacking. Which is the issue. You know it is jank. You don’t know how jank it actually is.
That’s why the “average reasonable person” standard is used in criminal cases. Most people do not expect to die driving over a pothole, and don’t drive over them intentionally.
And the court case against the dead CEO will be very interesting