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To: george76
Interesting article. I remember those years when DIA was trying to get that ultra-high-tech baggage system working. I didn't realize it had been abandoned ten years after its introduction. This passage in the article caught my eye...
Bruce Webster, principal of Webster & Associates LLC, a Washington-based consulting company that works with companies on troubled IT projects, said the decision by United came years too late. "There are a few lessons that large companies just don't seem to learn," he said. "The first lesson is that the best way to build a large, complex system is to evolve it from a small system that works. No one bothered to get a small system up and running in the first place -- they went for the big bang."
This is ESPECIALLY true with the effort to re-invent and overhaul transportation in the USA away from hydrocarbon liquid fuels to EVs and batteries. It took 130 years to evolve to the highly complex and highly optimized liquid hydrocarbon fuel system we have today. You cannot convert that overnight (where "overnight" means 20-40 years). The lesson Mr. Webster cites is going to rear its ugly head again, only this time, it will be land transportation affecting EVERY person on USA soil, not just air travelers passing through DIA.
30 posted on 12/04/2022 5:06:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
This is ESPECIALLY true with the effort to re-invent and overhaul transportation in the USA away from hydrocarbon liquid fuels to EVs and batteries.

Before even attempting such a thing, one must first ask whether such a reinvention is necessary or desirable. Since it is neither ("climate change" is a fraud), attempting such a change even on a small scale is a waste of resources.

46 posted on 12/05/2022 2:59:12 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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