FreightWaves Quotes Shackelford, Bowen, McKinely & Norton Partner David Norton on Hyperloop Regulations
Regulations could slow down hyperloop

In an interview for this article, David Norton, an attorney with specific expertise in aviation law, said that any new regulatory overview must take passenger safety into account. I suspect that, as with aviation, the two competing policy concerns will be passenger safety on one hand, and economic development on the other, said Norton, when asked what type of oversight is necessary or inevitable for hyperloop. He explained that regulations would also be informed by a very old and well-established legal concept known as common carriage.

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