Collecting examples of where government regulation either stifles, or enables in a new way, some form of progress (R&D, deployment, infrastructure build, etc)
Enforced monopoly - Yucca Mountain - impact on developing new nuclear waste options
Red tape
SF permitting process - ice cream store example: https://twitter.com/_fruchtose/status/1271280300228632576?s=20
CDC slowing COVID test development
Eli Dourado
Cargo drones stifled by FAA requiring 1:1 ratio of drone:pilot
EU stifling supersonic to protect Airbus
Environmental impact statements slow projects without substantively protecting the environment; lengths of EIS have ballooned 10-100X since they were originally introduced (→ slowness is both new regulation we didn't use to have, and worse enforcement of that regulation)
US NRC Oklo modified licence approach
FAA granting waiver to let Skydio drones fly beyond line of sight when inspecting infrastructure like bridges
Skydio gains FAA approval to conduct bridge inspections with drones in North Carolina