@jonjon.jpeg: Yesterday there was a horrific crash. When I came back today, there was another. Both involved teenagers on bicycles. In each case, the fire department, police, and eyewitnesses will work together to assign blame. Who made the last mistake that could have prevented this? But that focuses on the wrong issue. It looks only at the active error, the final mistake. Real solutions come from looking upstream, at what are called latent errors. The goal is not to assign blame, but to reduce how often we ever need to. #carculture #crash #pedestriansafety #trafficsafety #urbanism
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Friday 26 September 2025 21:48:09 GMT
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Auntie Winter :
I’m a city manager in Texas and I have learned so much from your videos. We are set to double in size in the next 5 years. You have no idea how much positive influence you have had on the development of my city….thank you!
2025-09-28 01:49:45
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Callum :
This concept is applicable so far beyond traffic, transportation, and medicine, thank you for giving us a word for it
2025-09-26 22:27:03
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Josh Hawn :
Imagine using the latent error framework in gun violence.
2025-10-05 15:39:07
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Pdx_groot :
I just started reading “There Are No Accidents” and this video feels very timely
2025-09-26 23:00:49
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dholcombpa :
As a cyclist, I appreciate your separating these responses
2025-09-26 23:41:41
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Bullfrogjam :
Latent error = systemic problem
2025-09-27 13:25:39
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Kristina De Kaos :
the cities have an inherent responsibility to create safe passage for our communities, including bicycles. we pay the taxes, they need to build the safest options, not the most unsafe and then blame the victims
2025-09-26 23:40:26
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volcelLARPer :
we all make mistakes
2025-10-01 07:40:33
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Jane :
here in Ontario our premiere is trying to get rid of speed cameras in school zones 😑🙄🙄🙄🙄
2025-09-29 15:43:57
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Liz :
my car was totaled last year at an intersection where there is an almost identical accident every 2 weeks. been this way for 20 years. city WILL NOT put in a red light with turn signal there. its just a stop sign where the secondary meets the main road
2025-09-27 16:56:16
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Natalia :
This concept applies to life in general not just traffic, thank you for the reminder!
2025-09-27 01:26:31
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Banana Bread :
"at some point we got a stop fishing people out of the river and figure out why they are falling in to begin with"
2025-09-28 01:48:08
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Natasha Alyxandrya :
A child riding a scooter was hit by a car in my town. The local news spent 5 minutes of their 30 minute show lecturing viewers on scooter safety as if *we* were all children. It was obnoxious to say the least. 🙄
2025-09-27 18:30:31
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MamaTrader :
I feel like this is in part because we have such a litigious society. Fear of liability hinders the problem solving
2025-09-27 00:03:51
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SJenki :
Aviation Safety likes to call this "The Five Whys" to practice identifying Latent Errors and contributing factors!
2025-10-01 07:05:55
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Melissa :
I learned about this concept from the perspective of software engineering. It’s called “root cause analysis” and there’s a technique called “the 5 whys”. The 1st “why” gets you to the “active error” and then the other 4 “whys” get you to the latent errors further and further upstream. Whenever something goes wrong, like an outage for example, we have a “retrospective” meeting where everyone comes together to discuss the “root cause analysis” and then discusses what we can do differently in the future to ensure that, if this exact same series of events happened again in the future, we would not have another outage. It’s not about blame, it’s about turning a failure into a learning opportunity and making your systems stronger and more robust
2025-09-27 01:58:31
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homeschool.counselor :
So sad. One of my uncles was killed when a car hit him while he was riding his bike.
2025-09-27 13:42:14
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Chip Ward :
Some places are not safe for bicycles. City leaders pretend that they are and people get hurt.
2025-09-27 03:35:15
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jajadejau :
The cyclist was they wearing a helmet.... WE SHOULDN'T BE FOCUSING ON THAT. 😭😭😭😭
2025-09-27 04:15:16
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A_Clever_Name :
“Solving an active error, doesn’t solve the problem it just assigns blame” well said. 🔥
2025-09-28 17:09:46
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Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom :
The city’s “thoughts and prayers” versus looking at the long-term deep seated flaws. I love being nerdy about life. Speaking of airplanes and pilots, Have you seen season 2 of The Rehearsal? It’s fascinating. (Even though I think Nathan Fielder displays very disturbing traits of a deeply unfeeling person).
2025-10-08 01:52:50
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gigikov :
Good grief ☹️I just want it to be safe to be outside!!!
2025-09-26 22:19:47
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avery anne :
The world has so much damage due to cars, cars are expensive and not accessible for a ton of people in big cities
2025-09-27 06:48:52
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safetyqueen7 :
As a safety pro, I was cheering you on! Works in the worklplace too - Remove the barriers to success, create a system where the right decisions are easier to make!
2025-09-28 04:45:32
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Clayton Welch :
I appreciate your passion towards fixing this major systemic issue
2025-09-27 21:49:46
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