Boeing Boeing Boring - a podcast by Aim for the Bushes

We’re back! Today we’ve got another great episode! First we talk about Boeing having trouble with their new 747 airplanes mostly due to pushing them out too soon and not doing enough testing to their autopilot systems and it resulted in 2 crashes. I go on a side tangent where I chalked it up to the evils of capitalism!

I can’t find the exact article I refer to about Boeing’s 737 Max 8 plane (damn my terrible note keeping!) but I have 3 articles from Gizmodo (the article I was referring to is from this site) that cover what I mentioned:
https://gizmodo.com/new-reports-suggest-pilots-followed-proper-procedure-to-1833769971
https://gizmodo.com/new-reports-suggest-pilots-followed-proper-procedure-to-1833769971
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-finally-grounds-boeing-737-max-planes-joining-eve-1833270311

Additionally here is a lengthy article from the New York Times about the 737 Max 8 flight systems and what went wrong:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/business/boeing-737-max-faa.html

Here is the episode of 99 Percent Invisible I mention about car safety. If it’s something you’re curious to know more about give it a listen: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/nut-behind-wheel/

Our second topic is the Boring Company. What is that? It’s a really clever name you see because it’s a tunnel digging company and tunnel digging is very boring. Specifically we talk about their plan to build tunnels in major cities as an alternative to public transit. They did a demo tunnel and, oh boy, it could have gone better!

Articles about the Boring Company’s Loop system (I erroneously refer to it as Hyperloop, which is something else). These cover the hypothetical Loop system and what’s been actualized:
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-high-speed-subway-test-tunnel-scheduled-1829903450
https://gizmodo.com/like-riding-on-a-dirt-road-first-reviews-of-elon-musks-1831197517

If you read these articles, the debates are in the comments. It’s an interesting read.


Thanks for listening!

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