Anything that the public depends on for survival could be a great candidate for this type of restriction. Think of the hundreds of lives that would have been saved had this type of law been in place for airlines and their aircraft. A guy aware of the risks running himself into a tree in a Tesla is one thing, an unaware set of pilots with hundreds of passengers on a public aircraft is another.
If the automation is actively saving lives by correcting human failures then they need to log those events silently and forward them to whoever manages the pilots.
Since 1970, air travel has increased by a factor of 7, while fatalities have decreased by >80%. Combine these figures and you get a safety improvement by a factor of about 70.
We are clearly doing something right, and automated systems replacing error-prone humans may well be a part of it. I don’t quite get HN’s infatuation with the mythical perfect pilot.
