A wonderful article in many ways. Kudos. But... I think the title should read "secondary" or "resultant" or "follow-on" or maybe even "chain-reaction" (maybe)

A wonderful article in many ways. Kudos. But... I think the title should read "secondary" or "resultant" or "follow-on" or maybe even "chain-reaction" (maybe) but NOT "second order" - as there's nothing meta about the run-on consequences. Just "future" would do. Not least because second order or meta-computation will likely have to be incorporated into autonomous car design. Such cars shouldn't be programmed to do things that are perfectly legal but outside the ability of human drivers, thus startling the hell out of human drivers, or literally colliding with their well-worn habits (habits based on past behavior of other human drivers, not ideal machine behavior.) For example, my too-quick reading of the recent Uber accident suggests that the car did something perfectly legal, but which a human wouldn't do, because we can't react to the color of a traffic-light changing within nano-seconds, and so create edge-case decisions and behavior. To prevent such accidents, either the machine or the designer of it, has to do some second-order thinking which models what humans can and can't do with a car (cognitively) in order to help the autonomous car fit in with and be more predictable to human drivers. It's no good for an autonomous car to drive legally in a way that's so unusual it just about guarantees a crash with a driver who's never seen that done before, such as predicting light changes with extreme accuracy and then exploiting that, or reacting to a light change far faster than any human ever has or ever will. (These human-friendly "features" could be dropped once humans are legally barred from driving on public roads, of course.) I can't swear I'm guiltless, but, to return to the original point: The general rule is, that if you use a word "because it makes you sound smart", you are only sounding smart to someone more ignorant than yourself, or equally ignorant. You risk proving yourself both ignorant and pompous to everyone who actually knows the meaning of the term. So please don't appropriate technical terms. (Note that a quick google may not rescue you from this fate if a degraded usage has already begun to spread.)