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My name's Darryl Malone. I'm a senior motor vehicle defect investigator with Transport Canada. I've been with Transport Canada for over 21 years. I look at a lot of the larger investigations. In-Depth engineering of vehicle defects is it a material issue? Is it a wiring issue? Programing issues, even sometimes to see if there's a safety issue that should be recalled or not by the manufacturer.
I'm a car person. I love cars and motorcycles. It's part of who I am. It's hard to explain. If you talk to any car guy or girl, they know exactly what the feeling is. I grew up in the city, but when I turned 14, my family, we moved to the countryside and it was a very pivotal moment in my life because my father brought home a 1950 Mercury truck for me and he showed me how to get it running again.
And I learned to drive it in the fields behind in the farm. It really sunk into me and to my soul, this, you know, making something mechanical work again and the beauty of an old vehicle. It really stuck to me as a child, and it held with me throughout my entire life. Every car is different from one car manufacturer to another car manufacturer.
If it's a car from five years ago or a new car, technology is always changing and it keeps the job interesting. Every investigation's always a little bit different. It's always enjoyable in that it's challenging my mind, challenging my engineering skills, challenging my mechanical skills. And I feel that we really make a difference. If we can prevent some of these accidents from happening to other people on the road,
I think there's a real possibility that we could be saving some people's lives. In the course of an investigation, we will look at the metallurgy of components. Fracture surfaces will tell us a story, what happened, why the components broke. We'll look at electronic circuits. We'll look at tire compounds, how tires are made. We have a machine shop where we make special brackets, weld up components that will assist us and replicating that situation that the consumer was in.
It's our passion for automobiles which brought us into this job. But once you start doing it, you become passionate for the people and their safety on the roads. And it's enjoyable to come to work and have conversations with people who share the same passion as I do. And we use that same passion to make Canada's roads safer through our investigations.