Autonomous machines face aviation's century-old safety playbook
An analysis argues that self-driving trucks and other autonomous 'physical AI' systems must work through the same set of trust-building questions that commercial aviation resolved over the past hundred years. Aviation once obsessed over engine count as a proxy for safety, a concern that eventually became irrelevant as reliability improved and regulation matured. The piece suggests robotics and autonomous vehicles are now at the start of a similar maturation curve.