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Tesla and Waymo Should Learn From 2024’s Air Crashes
Following aviation’s cautious path is the best hope for autonomous driving to become widely adopted.
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If you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like a setback. Don’t give up hope.
The crash of Jeju Air Co. flight 2216 on Dec. 29, killing all but two of the 181 on board, and the death of 38 four days earlier when Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 was apparently being erroneously targeted by Russian anti-aircraft weapons, helped give the year the worst death toll in commercial aviation since 2018.