Originally Posted by
Nadar
Excepts when it doesn't.
No kidding? Head on over to the Robbie 66 crash thread, recent, two fatalities, and the Isle of Mann thread (206), one fatality ... you can die a lot of ways.
The point being I was trying to make is that there is more than one approach to dealing with wear -- a known phenomenon in gear boxes and power trains. If another (better) means of monitoring/warning can be implemented, that's one way to address this. I am not pretending that it is the only way. It was of interest to note that this kind of feature was mentioned in the G-REDL write up, and has been a feature in the current reports coming from the investigators in Norway.
The sub text may be something along the lines of your point: if you can't come up with a better monitoring system, then you have to come up with higher safety factors / wear resistance / shorter inspection intervals.