We Need New Rules for Self-Driving Cars

摘要

There is a sign on the campus of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Virginia that reads "From tragedy we draw knowledge to improve the safety of us all." The NTSB is obsessive about learning from mistakes. Its job is to work out the causes of accidents, mostly those that involve airplanes. The lessons it takes from each crash are one reason why air safety has improved so dramatically. 2017 was the first year in which, for the first time since the dawn of the jet age, not a single person was killed in a commercial airline passenger jet crash.