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The article keeps iterating how they’ve tested for every conceivable condition they can think of, and yet the narrative says that they were stunned to experienc
by smallstepforman 9y ago
The article keeps iterating how they’ve tested for every conceivable condition they can think of, and yet the narrative says that they were stunned to experience a communications loss which they never tested/conceived of. It’s not reassuring when someone claims 100% test coverage and 100% pass, when they only have a limited number or tests in their script. A comms loss was unthinkable?!? What is this, amatuer hour?
- ccozan 9y agoThey say that the truck/system is autonomous? Because, yes, if loss of connectivity is a major fault and put it into a safe mode, then no, is not autonomous driving.
- titzer 9y agoAgree. It is "automated" driving, not "autonomous" driving.
- shusson 9y agoMy thought exactly, I'm sure Boeing doesn't consider a loss of communication unexpected when they develop Auto-pilot systems.
- VMG 9y ago100%. I hope they spun it as "unthinkable" for PR reasons, which would be slightly less bad.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThe article is very thick in drama and linkbait, it really could've been written much shorter - "autonomous truck stops because the server went down, welp guess they didn't test for that". Except that they probably did because the truck stopped safely.
- retSava 9y agoIt went into "safe mode", which sounds like a catch-all for every conceivable and inconceivable error they don't explicitly handle in any other way.
- rubidium 9y agoThis is a Systems engineering miss. My guess (would be interesting confirm) that this is a "software first" culture, which can result in these sorts of things. My brief linkedin search of the company showed UI, computer, and data engineers... but I might of missed the Systems.
- tech4all 9y agoCame here to post the same thing. For any developer who has worked on network software longer than 10 days, the complete loss of signal to the "server" is _not_ "an edge case"!