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Who owns the boats? (lemmy.world)
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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago

There are many failure modes on a boat.

An engine failure can mean running around on rocks and wrecking the hull, or a failure of a through hull fitting can flood the boat, or a failure of the hull itself.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

And a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car.

All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have.

Cars can get you stranded and trapped.

None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago

OK? The point was, there's a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in.

Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car.

The point is, when the engine dies you don't drown.

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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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