(WASHINGTON) — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is postponing its public forum, Automation in Transportation: Lessons for Safe Implementation, until a future date. The forum had been scheduled for March 11-12 in Washington.
The session, to be led by NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy with participation by all NTSB board members, was slated to focus on safety issues related to automation in all transportation modes: aviation, highway, rail, pipeline and marine.
Topics that were scheduled to be addressed:
• Current and emerging use of automation in transportation
• Lessons learned from early implementations
• The role of humans in automated systems
• Assessing the safety of highly automated systems
• Post-deployment safety assessments
Forum participants were to include a diverse group of subject matter experts representing industry, academia, labor, government, safety advocates and other stakeholders.
“We apologize for the inconvenience,” the agency said about the postponement.
