Elaine Chao?s hands-off approach to transportation is endangering lives
Loosening future regulations while ignoring present-day problems At South by Southwest yesterday, the Secretary of the Department of Transportation Elaine Chao announced a new regulatory body to speed the adoption of new transportation technologies including ?tunneling, hyperloop, autonomous vehicles, and other innovations.?
The creation of what?s being called the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) council excited SXSW participants in attendance?namely, Virgin Hyperloop One, which eagerly dispatched a press release applauding Chao?s decision to launch the council, scheduled to start meeting as soon as this week.
In a week where the transportation department is facing some of its most pointed criticism in recent memory, Chao has now created a separate council to speed the commercial adoption of untested technologies like driverless vehicles and hyperloops?without addressing the dramatic, necessary changes that industries from automakers to airlines need today. ?There doesn?t seem to be any meaningful enforcement going on,? National Consumers League vice president John Breyault told the Wall Street Journal, in a report that called Chao?s leadership on many issues ?invisible? and ?passive.?
Earlier this week, a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed after takeoff in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board. It was the second Boeing 737 Max 8 to experience a fatal crash in five months. In October, a 737 Max 8 crashed in Indonesia, killing 189 passengers.
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