Was the Hindenburg disaster really what killed airships, or was it the airplane?

I just really don’t think so. Let’s assume one of the scenarios mentioned in the article happens, say, the deadly self driving car update. I have a hard time seeing this blamed on the underlying technology and not the car company being reckless. Would you stop using your Claude Code because engineers at random car company pushed a bad update?

Also, comparison to Hindenburg is so weird. I guess the point they try to make is that both technologies are, at their core, unsafe, but main reason Hindenburg happened is Nazi Germany using Hydrogen over much safer Helium due to export restrictions, so basically flying around in a bomb. And then the technology was just naturally surpassed by commercial aviation.