GRA
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The NTSB is clueless about technology? Have you read the letter? It's only 12 pages + 3 of references to past NTSB safety recommendations to NHTSA or manufacturers. It mainly takes NHTSA to task for adopting a laissez-faire attitude to regulating DAS, much as the FAA seem to have done with Boeing, although the latter may have been more a case of regulatory capture, lack of funds and/or simple laziness.
As an example of regulatory capture, I remember many years back when the then-head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a speech at an industry forum in which he started off by saying "We in the nuclear power industry . . ."!
The Trump-era EPA would be another example, at least at its head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
As an example of regulatory capture, I remember many years back when the then-head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a speech at an industry forum in which he started off by saying "We in the nuclear power industry . . ."!
The Trump-era EPA would be another example, at least at its head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture