Carter Racing

Originally my group had decided unanimously to still race. We decided that the benefits of winning outweighed the costs of not winning, or even the engine failing. The temperatures did show that the engine had a good chance of failing below 60 degrees. The time was 9:23 and the team had to make a decision at 10:23, only an hour later. The temperature at 9:23 AM was 40 degrees. There would be almost no chance that the temperature would raise over 20 degrees in an hour. Therefore our team decided that we should change our original decision to not race. We decided the team should just cut their losses and get ready for next year.


One problem our group discovered in the article was that it did not explicitly say that the race was exactly at 10:23 AM. The race could have been later in the day which would give the weather more time to heat up. the article also did not say anything about looking at a weather forecast for the day which in my opinion would have been very helpful. 


Then at the end of class we were informed that the article was actually about the Challenger space exploration and not racing. The Challenger team had to go through a similar group decision process to decide whether or not to launch the space shuttle.In the end the team decided to launch the shuttle and one of the rubber gaskets did fail causing catastrophic failure.