19 February

Talking about road safety brings up interesting comparisons with air safety. Private planes are nearly as dangerous as cars. Commercial flight (much, much safer) went the way that driving and cars are being dragged towards incredibly slowly. Taking sole responsibility off the pilot/driver and adding a whole lot of controls, technological and legal, and collective monitoring. This is what's actually happening with self-driving cars (not really self-driving, more driver-assisted driving). It doesn't occur to many that a huge part of the time they're in the air in a commercial airliner, the plane is on auto pilot.