When I returned home from vacation, I was welcomed by graffitied elevator. The chamber of engineers had made those ugly stickers mandatory for residential elevators. The elevator had more important flaw of not settling level with the current floor. However, this was not considered as a problem. The authorities are being paid to develop standards and regulations. However, when the people occupying those seats are short sighted, problems arise. Unfortunately, capable technical people are scarce and those who work for authorities are not usually the best. I propose the regulations to be questioned by semi-technical people with broader view before being published.
An extension of this problem can be seen on the environmental protection. When the regulations are set without solving the root cause of the problem. The problem is transferred to locations with less regulations. However, when the environment is polluted, it is transferred to the origin country as well. The objective of rules and regulations should be to solve problems, not to create obstacles for the industries or the society. It is easy to write and publish a rule, however it is much more difficult to come up with solutions. Therefore, more effort should be put on the solutions. I, myself almost always come up with solutions when I see a problem. I wish, I could transfer my mindset to more people as well.
Finally, the rules and regulations should be developed in coherence with the trends. Innovations don’t happen in a day and they take some time to spread around. Unfortunately, the regulators lag behind such trends even though they had time. As a result, the innovations and reforms should start from the regulatory side to speed up the advancement of the humanity.
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