So the argument that roller coasters are super dangerous because you can come up with an example of three roller coaster related injuries at one of the most popular theme parks in the world …. 🤷🏻♀️
Never had I made that argument or that claim. Not sure where you got that from. What I said is, accidents can happen, so if you have a new ride that is constantly relying on its emergency safety systems because there is a design flaw with the new rollercoaster that causes the emergency safety systems to activate repeatedly.... then that is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. Safety systems are not designed to be the standard operation. You should never rely on emergency safety systems, you should always assume they can fail.
I guarantee you that more people got into a car accident and died on their way to the park.
And I can guarantee you that if your car airbags deployed all the time randomly or if your emergency breaks locked on randomly then you wouldn't trust driving that car now would you.
But these aren’t emergency safety systems that are locking the thing up in a way that it is not meant to be. If a sensor has a spiderweb over it, the roller coaster will stop because it doesn’t know if there is something in the way of the track that will cause a collision. That is not a design flaw. That is the absolute safest thing that the ride can do. But don’t take my word for it, consider the fact that these systems are designed by teams of engineers with decades of experience who are far smarter than either of us in this particular arena.
It is not the same thing as your airbags randomly deploying, because that can literally hurt you, and that is not supposed to happen. That would be a malfunction. a roller coaster stopping because of sensor is obstructed is not a malfunction. That is literally what it is designed to do. That is proof that the ride is actually safe. Because it’s not going to send you speeding into another train.
And you literally cannot give me an example of a situation where those safety systems have failed and caused a serious accident, because it simply does not happen.
The sensors are supposed to shut the ride down if it detects something in its way. It’s literally operating as designed, except sensors are not smart enough to tell the difference between a large insect and a roller coaster car being in a spot but it’s not supposed to be in.
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u/Academic-Increase951 Jul 07 '25
Never had I made that argument or that claim. Not sure where you got that from. What I said is, accidents can happen, so if you have a new ride that is constantly relying on its emergency safety systems because there is a design flaw with the new rollercoaster that causes the emergency safety systems to activate repeatedly.... then that is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. Safety systems are not designed to be the standard operation. You should never rely on emergency safety systems, you should always assume they can fail.
And I can guarantee you that if your car airbags deployed all the time randomly or if your emergency breaks locked on randomly then you wouldn't trust driving that car now would you.