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> the necessary level of engagement (and notifying them when that level changes) is going to be increasingly critical. Is there an "uncanny valley" style term
by protomyth 10y ago
> the necessary level of engagement (and notifying them when that level changes) is going to be increasingly critical.
Is there an "uncanny valley" style term for this?
- Animats 10y agoI've been calling this the "deadly valley". The automation is good enough that the driver will tune out, but not good enough for it to be safe that way.
- arjunnarayan 10y agoThere should be, and the best candidate term is "Children of the Magenta", a term describing pilots who are too dependent on the Magenta lines on their instrumentation. 99% Invisible did a good podcast episode on this a year ago: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magenta-automation-paradox-pt-1/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent... Their follow-up podcast episode talks explicitly about this problem (first seriously discussed in the context of airplane automation) becoming important in the context of self-driving cars, and how Google is very aware of this (hence Google's push for 100% automated cars, since the middle valley is so dangerous).
- tbihl 10y agoThere are a couple of ways you can do this on the water (radar, AIS), but the names for doing so escapes me. In ocean navigation there is the notion of a tripwire: if X happens, do Y to get your shit together. Ocean traffic also sometimes has the issue of many-thousand-ton vehicles on autopilot while the crew are elsewhere or asleep (not all the time, but enough to be unsettling). Then things get fantastically complicated as you near the destination.