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Computer software can also be updated, yet almost everything is broken. Rushing self-driving cars is not pragmatic, it's keeping the lack of safety culture that
by uola 10y ago
Computer software can also be updated, yet almost everything is broken. Rushing self-driving cars is not pragmatic, it's keeping the lack of safety culture that driving already has. Whatever lives you save in the short run is likely to be lost many times over on the margin of the standard we expect from self-driving cars. Pragmatic safety would be things like speed and distance enforcement. That's how self-driving is really going to save lives, by not making those one in hundred thousand decisions that kill people. Which you could have today if it wasn't for that watching movies with autopilot is so much cooler than being saved from yourself.
- branchan 10y agoCan you elaborate on 'everything is broken'?
- uola 10y agoThere's a supreme mismatch between the state of software (and infrastructure) and how we use it today. If nothing else people should be concerned about this because it makes the Internet de facto not open, since most people can't afford the resources (like security) to run many service. You would think that sending something to a machine on the Internet would imply that it would actually reach the recipient and that no one else is listening. Not only is that not true, it was essentially never intended to be true. We work very hard to try and make it so, but will probably never reach a point were it will be equal to what it could have been if that was the intention from the beginning. https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-about-jessica http://swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com/post/98675308034/a-story-a...