And if you think investors will put up millions and insurance companies will even talk to people who plan on risking public lawsuits without rock-solid engineering, you live on another planet.
At most, the risk was too great to leave to math alone, so they built an adjustable setup for final testing to both make absolutely sure the had it safe, and to see if their math applied perfectly it required real-world adjustments.
At most. But my bet is that their tests proved their math perfectly.
Did you watch the video of the test where the raft came off the track? You think that was their desired outcome?
“We always ride our rides first,” Schooley said. “And we found out it was too steep and too short. So we were able to redesign it from what we learned. We tore down two-thirds of the slide and rebuilt it into the design we have now.”
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/26/travel/worlds-tallest-water-slide/