There are already whole-aircraft parachutes, like for small planes, which deploy via a small rocket so the chute can be utilized very quickly. This allows aircraft to land safely even if the failure occurs at relatively low altitude.
I expect most of these will need to be driverless by law.
Yeah, but then I think about the iconic scenes in "The Fifth Element" and Star Wars about what happens when failure occurs in the flow of automated vehicles.
I guess there will be petabytes of data to support such regulations, but without The Force, jumping from vehicle to vehicle and ultimately safety seems...sketch (at least after an offsite pizza lunch, lol).
i hope it has its safety measues "OR"....
...this might happen.... :P