Re: AJPO is still clueless about the reality of DoD Ada rejection

[peter@crabby.demon.co.uk (Peter Finney)]

Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote:

>> Ken, you know we're both on the same side, BUT you and I both know of
>> cases where more money was spent (in manhours) justifying a Ada waiver
>> than would have been used if they had just done the Ada like good little
>> boys and girls. [yet another anecdone published].

>I absolutely agree that there are cases where Ada policy is abused.
>I also absolutely agree that there are cases where traffic laws are abused.
>I'm not quite ready to say that either is useless, however.

This reminds me of my years working for NATO in Naples (Italy :-)).

I asked one of my (neapolitan) staff why the traffic signals were
largely ignored in Naples. He replied " humans know better than
robots".

I then pointed out that there were one or two intersections where the
lights were obeyed - reply " those are the dangerous crosssroads".

When I pointed out that it seemed a bit pointless having the signals
at all he said ( I paraphrase) "they are very useful in deciding who
pays when there is an accident".
Peter Finney
Principal Consultant
BAeSEMA Ltd
Portchester UK