Virilio on designing accidents before the substance

Another great quote from Paul Virilio's book "L'accident originel":

"...imaginons une prospective de l'accident. En effet, puisque ce dernier est innové dans l'instant de la découverte scientifique ou technique, peut-être pourrions-nous, à l'inverse, inventer directement "l'accident" afin de déterminer par la suite, la nature de la fameuse "substance" du produit ou de l'appareil implicitement découverts, évitant ainsi le développement de certaines catastrophes prétenduments accidentelles" Paul Virilio, p114

my translation:

"...let's imagine accident forecasting. As a matter of fact, since the accident is created with the scientific or technical discovering, perhaps could we, conversely, invent directly the "accident" to thus determine the nature of the "substance" of the product or the artifact implicitly discovered, avoiding the development of certain so-called accidental catastrophe"

Why do I blog this? I like the idea of designing the troubles before thinking about the artefacts, a kind of reverse-engineering technique to foster idea creations...