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What boils my blood each time I hear self driving company talk about metrics, is total ignorance to decades of safety engineering and processes developed there.
by justapassenger 3y ago
What boils my blood each time I hear self driving company talk about metrics, is total ignorance to decades of safety engineering and processes developed there.
They act like reasoning about safety of automated systems is brand new area that they need to develop and disrupt.
Sure, heavy reliance on AI makes some traditional forms of validation more tricky, but BS metrics and test in prod is so reckless, that will end up only hurting the industry. When there will be a big tragedy, because of reckless approach, government will be forced to drop heavy hammer of regulations and make it much harder to develop self driving tech.
- Dalewyn 3y ago>BS metrics and test in prod is so reckless, When you put it that way, it strongly mirrors what is seen in computer programming and I am inclined to wonder how much of it is simply the computer programming culture leaking into the automotive world.
- ilinx 3y agoThere are reckless people in software development, and there are reckless people in the automotive world. Any industry is going to have people who cut corners to be early to a new market. I’m a software developer, and being asked to test in prod is a massive red flag. It’s almost always prompted by someone with fairly little technical background.
- dylan604 3y ago>It’s almost always prompted by someone with fairly little technical background. Or it's a sales team that knows a big $$$ contract is out there and this thing needs to be in PROD now and not in the normal cycle of DEV -> QA/Staging -> PROD. There are many reasons for doing things in prod, none of them are valid reasons, but there are many of them that people use. "The specific data we need to test against isn't in DEV" is one of my pet peeves.