Break‑to‑Learn Engineering

Deliberately pushing systems to fail, under controlled and instrumented conditions, produces faster learning about real‑world hazards than safe‑only operation. Applied beyond aviation, formalizing 'break‑to‑learn' protocols (red‑teaming, failure science, instrumentation standards) could make safety practice an explicit part of product development and public procurement. — If adopted as a standard, it would reshape regulation and corporate practice across industries that now under‑test rare but catastrophic failure modes, from autonomous vehicles to AI systems.