
The lessons it takes from each crash are one reason why air safety has improved so dramatically. Its job is to work out the causes of accidents, mostly those that involve airplanes. There is a sign on the campus of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Virginia that reads “From tragedy we draw knowledge to improve the safety of us all.” The NTSB is obsessive about learning from mistakes. New rules should be flexible while ensuring that self-driving cars are safe, broadly accessible, and avoid the worst unintended consequences. Theirs will purportedly label the CIA as the perpetrator.Autonomous vehicles will change the world in ways both anticipated and entirely unexpected. Russia has said it intends to produce its own Chernobyl program, it will be interesting to compare the two.

This story has been waiting to be told and there is hands down no one better than HBO to do it. I have completed the series and it definitely ranks as one of the best. The way they are able to capture that exact feeling of anxiety, horror, disgust and sadness all rolled into one is admirable. The acting is impeccable by all, the filming is top notch, the sounds used to heighten the tension versus music. He tried (as he usually does when watching a Western production based in or about that part of the world) to find errors or inconsistencies but has not been able to - yet.


The set detail, the way the Soviet regime hierarchy functioned, the denial and secrecy surrounding the disaster. We watch this together and he is amazed at it's authenticity. I have heard his stories of the disaster the people's concerns, fears and sacrifices. My husband grew up near Kyiv and his father drove one of the buses that evacuated the civilians from Pripyat.
