Comments on: Human Error Part 1: De la Concorde Overpass http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/ Ensure useful and usable solutions Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:52:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: djfao http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-665 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:46:21 +0000 http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-665 HI, I think you should talk about excatly why the concorde overpass collapsed.

]]> By: Francois Aubin http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-334 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:46:10 +0000 http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-334 I agree with you Marc, Human learn from errors and human do errors. Although in de la concord overpass story, Engineering accumulated thousand of years of trial and errors. They had a lot of prior significant facts.

For your second point, it is very true. We learn form mistakes. In Design that is exactly what we try to do, provoke those mistake ahead of time with simulation, laboratory study. This help prevent bridge from falling.

]]> By: Marc Tremblay http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-329 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:27:01 +0000 http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-329 I have a philosophical approach for that kind of problem. I think we need the past to learn about the future. My point is that we learn from our mistakes. It is impossible to anticipate without significative facts coming from the past. Purpose is part of the future. The past is the background which we can have to support our ideas and mental representation.

The second point is: error is a fundamental aspect of knowledge. By making mistakes one can learn what is wrong. In a certain way, efficiency is connected with error.

I think efficiency is important for specific tasks but is less important for others depending on imagination (arts).

The question is are we serving efficiency? if yes…why?

]]> By: Fagstein » It's always the human's fault http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-322 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:00:23 +0000 http://francoisaubin.com/2007/07/11/human-error-part-1-de-la-concorde-overpass/#comment-322 [...] interesting post from a cognitive engineer about how human factors helped lead to the collapse of the de la Concorde Blvd. overpass. Human factors are a serious issue nowadays. Blaming things on human error is easy. But being able [...]

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