How are rollercoster saftey standards created and tested for multiple rides holding hundreds/thousands of people a day? How are you able to put so much trust in this sort of engineering?
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I was an engineer at Six Flags for a few years. The simple answer is that coasters are so over-designed that you don’t really need to test them. Every single component is at least 5x stronger than it needs to be, and a lot of them are 10x. Every beam, bolt, seatbelt, and gear has a rating of how much force it can withstand before deforming, and those forced can be calculated before based on the speed and weight of the trains. Now especially, everything is computer simulated before the first piece is even built.
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