Recently the FAA changed course and determined VTOL aircraft would be certified under a yet to be written certification process under Part 21.17(b) Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Rotorcraft for special classes of aircraft rather than under Part 23 for Airworthiness Standards: Normal, Utility, Acrobatic and Commuter Airplanes. While there are…

Reference article — FAA’s Aircraft Certification Chief Says It Must Flexibly Close Regulatory Gaps for New Aircraft https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-09-14/faas-aircraft-certification-chief-says-it-must-flexibly-close-regulatory Unfortunately, the FAA appears to be oblivious, or worse yet ignoring, many key indicators that this industry is on the wrong path. Said more succinctly, they are buying an extreme amount of…

First, I am a whistleblower and have worked in cybersecurity. More on these below. While I am glad Peiter “Mudge” Zatko came forward, I would like to dig a bit deeper into what might have occurred here. My apprehension and questioning of the circumstances focuses on the time Mudge allowed…

References Article — TuSimple truck incident leads to investor lawsuit · https://landline.media/tusimple-truck-incident-leads-to-investor-lawsuit/ Article- Self-Driving Truck Accident Draws Attention to Safety at TuSimple · https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-truck-accident-draws-attention-to-safety-at-tusimple-11659346202 The lawsuit · https://landline.media/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/45850521_complaint.pdf

Reference document from NHTSA https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22E072-8020.PDF Cruise has responded to NHTSA with regard to the crash its system was involved in on June 2, 2022 by taking unprotected lefts out of its testing regimen. Yet, somehow, it does not back away from stating they were “driverless” in the same area. (With…

The state of California is about to pass a measure forcing Tesla to make changes regarding its use of the term “Full Self Driving”. Reference article — CA wants to make it illegal for Tesla to label FSD as FSD https://www.teslarati.com/ca-wants-to-make-it-illegal-for-tesla-to-label-fsd-as-fsd/ First, I am all for dealing with the term…

Link — https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-driving-vehicles-new-safety-ambition Important Words “We believe that self-driving vehicles should be held to the same high standard of behaviour as that expected of human drivers. Current law expects human drivers to be competent and careful. Self-driving vehicles should, therefore, be expected to achieve an equivalent level of safety to…

Reference article — Tesla To Give NHTSA Access To FSD Beta After Old Request Surfaces https://insideevs.com/news/604878/tesla-give-nhtsa-access-fsd-beta-after-old-request-surfaces/ NHTSA bought a Tesla with “Autopilot” and “Full Self Driving” over 8 MONTHS AGO and didn’t get Tesla’s permission to use it until Elon granted it today on Twitter. This despite NHTSA sending an…

Reference article — The Big Bang didn’t happen https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215 “Readers may well be wondering at this point why they have not read of this collapse of the Big Bang hypothesis in major media outlets by now and why the authors of so many recent papers have not pointed to this…