Regulate and validate the vehicles and their software updates, not the engineers.

Edit: Or get used to our field moving as slowly as the bridge building field.

Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation. It alters the incentives to align the innovation with public benefit. If properly caring for society is too slow for you, your part of the problem.

Oh did they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E...

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> Holding people responsible doesn’t decrease or slow down innovation.

Citation required. This is strongly non-intuitive.

First one only sagged, no catastrophic failure, no deaths, no injuries.

A few more on that list were over a hundred years old. Not sure when he started holding engineers responsible.

Then you have the bridges rammed by ships, terrorism, construction accidents, a wooden suspension bridge in the middle of nowhere that had an upper limit of three and was used by seventy, etc. .

Seems as if the bridges themselves have held up fairly well.

It doesn't prevent you from trying to introduce new technology as long as risk is acceptable. Otherwise we'd still ride horse carriages (with special horses bred to be slow).