Collaborate Disseminate
In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by the Collings Foundation, crashed with thirteen people on board. After landing hard and skidding into the de-icing tanks at the Bradley International Airport, all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old …read more
Continue reading Poor Maintenance Could have Led to Fatal B-17 Crash
The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days …read more
Continue reading Saying Farewell To Another B-17 And Its Crew
A new police report shows the fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona could have been avoided. Continue reading Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Was Watching Hulu When the Car Struck and Killed a Pedestrian
A new police report shows the fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona could have been avoided. Continue reading Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Was Watching Hulu When the Car Struck and Killed a Pedestrian
In one bad week in March, two people were indirectly killed by automated driving systems. A Tesla vehicle drove into a barrier, killing its driver, and an Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian crossing the street. The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary reports on both accidents came out recently, and these bring us as close as we’re going to get to a definitive view of what actually happened. What can we learn from these two crashes?
There is one outstanding factor that makes these two crashes look different on the surface: Tesla’s algorithm misidentified a lane split and actively …read more
Continue reading Fatalities vs False Positives: The Lessons from the Tesla and Uber Crashes