Tesla and Waymo should learn from the air crashes of 2024

If you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like a setback. Don’t give up hope.

The

crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 on Dec 29,

killing all but two of the 181 on board, and the death of 38 four days earlier when

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243

was apparently being erroneously targeted by Russian anti-aircraft weapons helped give the year the worst death toll in commercial aviation since 2018.