Dourado also notes that the loosening of these rules allows new entrants in the field to hire talent and start companies. “Let’s say you were starting a company to build airliners,” he adds. “You could have trouble finding engineers with Part 25 experience—you might have to hire them away from Boeing or Airbus. But fortunately, it’s relatively easy to find engineers who have built experimental or Part 23 aircraft before.” Basically, there are huge benefits to having a bias toward allowing innovation and experimentation, and there are actually huge safety costs to overregulating this industry, since innovation will be crippled and we’ll lose out on unseen, unknowable advancements.

The upshot, per Dourado: “By making a category of aircraft that doesn’t require type certification, is actually useful for transportation (250 knots and 4 seats), and can be flown with less skill via simplified flight controls, FAA is opening the door to a bigger market and vastly more innovation.”

It’s not exactly the Trump administration legalized flying cars, but it is a step closer to that. If you want innovation in this realm, this is how you get it.

Scenes from New York: “Columbia University has expelled and suspended students who were involved in a pro-Palestinian demonstration that shut down the main campus library in May, moving more quickly to hand down punishments than it has in the past, university officials announced on Tuesday,” reports The New York Times.

Universities being tougher on really bad conduct—the type that impedes other students’ abilities to learn and use public spaces; the type that damages university property—is probably a great way to attempt to get in front of the Trump administration’s attempted crackdown. Though the threats to pull federal funding make my libertarian heart sing, the administration is at times demanding or implying that the universities crack down on certain types of protected First Amendment activity, which is decidedly not the way. It’s true that Columbia’s leaders should not have allowed the takeover and occupation of Hamilton Hall, but it’s also not clear to me that the feds needed to get involved; the better course of action is the one Columbia is taking now (albeit a year too late).