The safety cultures of agencies like the FAA, NTSB and international counterparts such as the EU's EASA is amazing, but not without its downsides. Certificatio

The safety cultures of agencies like the FAA, NTSB and international counterparts such as the EU's EASA is amazing, but not without its downsides. Certification costs have been going up as a portion of overall development costs[1], this leads to more expensive planes, less competition and technological development. There's some amount of safety that's counterproductive, since people will just opt for e.g. driving which is much less safer, but the way these agencies are set up means they can't ever address that question. They're never going to declare a system as unreasonably too safe and expensive. So we really should be careful to wish that aviation safety be applied to other industries. 1. https://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/what-certification-tipping-point https://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/what-certificat...