Boeing's folding wingtips get the FAA green light
I&#x27;m glad the FAA does what they do. While it is easy to hand wave away their concerns, it is better to over-spec it now and to test the design than to just let manufacturers put &quot;alpha&quot; products into commercial usage and only fix them after a body-count.<p>If driving&#x2F;vehicles&#x2F;roads were held to the same or a similar standards to aircraft there might be fewer accidents and deaths today.<p>Ironically self-driving is held to a much higher standard than regular driving; which is appreciated but further makes one question why regular &quot;dumb&quot; vehicles are so under-regulated (the analogy that springs to my mind is when HTTPS with a self-signed certificate used to be treated much worse than regular HTTP, it took years to treat HTTP as the insecure connection it is, manual vehicles are the same way, something that has been around so long we ignore its safety issues).