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100 years from now - cars won't be your problem

Engineering on the job The different fields of engineering are not well understood by the general public but they are expected to make things work, provide essential services, grow the economy. All of the unsustainable activities we enjoy are actually well engineered systems, they work and they are doing what they were meant to do.   We seem to be stuck in a conundrum loop.  Transition Engineering is a pretty simple idea – there is a methodology that all engineers will learn and use to develop and carry out the transition projects in every engineered system.  This is the same thing that happened 100 years ago when a simple, but heretical idea emerged in the engineering fields of the time – safety engineering.  Most people may not even be aware of the rater straight-forward methodologies of safety engineering that were set out in 1911. But – nobody wants to be in the future where safety engineering did not emerge and become a professional norm in all engin...