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When we have self-driving cars will we still expect to hack on the software? I really feel my pedestrian avoidance is too sensitive, let's tighten that up a li
by sgustard 12y ago
When we have self-driving cars will we still expect to hack on the software? I really feel my pedestrian avoidance is too sensitive, let's tighten that up a little. And I want to win all four-way stops!
- tdaltonc 12y agoI think that you should be allowed to hack your self driving car. But you should have to submit the compiled code to the NHTSA and your insurance agent so that they can run it through a bunch of black box simulations to determine if it's street legal and how much to charge you per mile.
- wstrange 12y agoThis sounds possible in theory, but difficult in practice. Designing a test suite that catches all possible life-critical errors is near impossible. The cost of testing and certification will probably be quite high, well outside the reach of amateurs. Just as we advise people not to write their own crypto (its easy to get wrong), I think the same will hold for safety critical software. All that being said, I think it is very important that this software is open source.
- juliangregorian 12y agoI'd love for it to be open source (and I do believe that would be the safest for all), but you know as well as I do that's not the world we live in. The safety code is going to become a feature/price differentiator/trade secret that car companies live and die by.