But trucks and tractor-trailers come here all the time, as they do in similarly inappropriate spots across Britain, directed by G.P.S. navigation devices that fail to appreciate that the shortest route is not always the best route.
If it isn't convertible, it may join the other devices that fail to differentiate themselves sufficiently from the herd.
Blowout preventers — the device that failed in the BP explosion — must be inspected and certified by industry, government and third-party professionals.
[C7.] Guidant Settles Lawsuit Over Heart Device Guidant agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 21-year-old man who used a company-made heart device that failed, said a lawyer representing the man's family.
A former worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig testified Monday that he had used an abnormal way of testing a critical emergency device that failed on the day of the explosion.
The goal of the junk shot is to force-feed the preventer, the device that failed when the disaster unfolded on April 20, until it becomes so plugged that the oil stops flowing or slows to a relative trickle.
The Fuero de los Españoles (1945), guaranteeing personal freedoms (provided no attack was made on the regime), was a cosmetic device that failed to establish Franco's democratic credentials with the Allies.
On Friday night, BP technicians replaced the original damaged blowout preventer — the safety device that failed when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20 — with another one that will be better able to handle any pressure changes that might take place during the final steps in the process of plugging the well permanently.
Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who leads the federal response to the spill, said in a statement that the preventer -- the roughly 500-ton safety device that failed in the Deepwater Horizon blowout in April -- would be brought to the surface on Saturday.
