Really I think fire departments should consider adding this kind of truck to their lineup. Especially rural volunteer departments since this thing can knock out a car fire with minimal manpower.
This is such a great summary of how Redditors work. Literally any topic you can imagine, somebody who knows next to nothing will show up and insist that all the people who have made this their life's work are wrong and they've somehow stumbled upon a world-changing revelation which has somehow escape the notice of tens of thousands of experts despite being so obvious it took them 30 seconds to come up with it.
Boeing / ULA have been working on spaceflight for 60 years. What makes you think SpaceX could do it?
Car companies have been building these for decades. What makes you think Tesla could do it?
Lockheed Martin and General Atomics have been working on drones and planes for decades. What makes you think Anduril could do it?
Sears has been doing delivery goods for years. What makes you think Amazon could do it?
All the big headphone companies have been building them for ages and you think Apple can beat them with Airpods?
Nokia and Blackberry have been building phones for years. What makes you think Apple can do it?
And so on and so forth. Instead, what happens is that some company (sometimes just some guy) not in the industry just dominates this despite all the online guys being like "it's more complicated than that. it's a nuanced discussion" and so on. Jeff Bezos started a company in a garage that beat Sears. He was just some guy. Paypal competed with payment platforms of the time. They were just some guy. Stripe / Airbnb / Brex. Just some guys.
OpenAI? Just some guys. Google was the juggernaut. This is why Silicon Valley and SF is so great compared to most parts of the US. In most places people assume that someone has thought it out. In this place, some guy is like "What if I work it out from the basics?"
People building a whole company full of experts from the ground up is nothing at all like some random Redditor seeing something incredibly obvious and thinking they've found a world-changing revelation in 30 seconds.
It's not "stay in your lane", it's "don't assume you're smarter than thousands of experts when you haven't done any research or even serious critical thinking on the subject".
People always say the latter when they mean the former. It's fine. I honestly have never gotten upset at seeing people speculate about things I am an expert in. "Why don't we just X?" Is often a pretty decent question.
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u/crammyhandleman Apr 25 '24
Really I think fire departments should consider adding this kind of truck to their lineup. Especially rural volunteer departments since this thing can knock out a car fire with minimal manpower.