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      Do you think that it suddenly loses buoyancy?

      Edit: dead implies no power, what boat requires power to float?

      Last I checked a dead car doesn’t erupt into flames when the power plant dies, or the transmission blows.

      Boats don’t sink because they can’t go forward.

      You can row a powerless boat like you can push a dead car.

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        There are many failure modes on a boat.

        An engine failure can mean running around on rocks and wrecking the hull, or a failure of a through hull fitting can flood the boat, or a failure of the hull itself.

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          And a loss of brakes can put you over a cliff in a car.

          All these failures are the same types of failures a car can have.

          Cars can get you stranded and trapped.

          None of what you stated makes boats any more dangerous than cars.

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            OK? The point was, there’s a lot of failure modes that result in the boat sinking, which is an inherently bad situation to be in.

            Whereas most of the ways a car can fail you result in being stranded

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              And there are as many failure modes that can cause harm to the *operator of a car.

              The point is, when the engine dies you don’t drown.

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