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Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0
 As stated in the wiki page, it was developed by Diane Vaughan when looking into the Challenger disaster. A great philosophy to understand.
To bring it back to topic (somewhat), this example relates to mobile phone usage in vehicles and the normalisation thereof: |
That theory also has cross over with a lot of societal change as well over the past say 20 years, certainly an interesting rabbit hole I'm going to go down.
The phone usage thing is interesting, they tell you that its a big distraction and you can't use your phone while driving, however new cars have massive screens in them with things you can fiddle with flat out.
The fines and demerit points are also priced in a way that its not enough to discourage you to use your phone while driving, if they made it four figures and 10 points, its a bit too expensive for the average motorist.
I look at our speeding fines, and 10-24 over carries the same fine, its easily the best value speeding offence in terms of demerit points and fine value, on a clean licence you can get done three times, still keep your licence and all in be under $1500,
If you're going to risk the fine for 10 over, you might as well as do 24 over (excl 110 zones), you're not going to get discretion from Victoria Police anyway on the 10 over.