NPC Luncheon: Deborah Hersman

Photo Credit: Deborah Hersman (center), the outgoing chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, delivers her farewell at a National Press Club Speakers Breakfast, April 21, 2014. Joining Chairman Hersman at the head table were Angela Greiling Keane, Bloomberg News White House Correspondent, and Jerry Zremski of the Buffalo News. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Chairman Hersman stated technology holds the key to reducing many of the accidents we have observed Noel St. John

Photo Credit: that technology can succeed where humans fail in systems such as Ground Proximity Warning Systems in aircraft. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Hersman addressed issues involving surface transportation, in particular The Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Improving safety involves removing the worst of the worst Noel St. John

Photo Credit: the weakest links. She said companies who skirt the rules gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace while endangering the public. Noel St. John