Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by ambago on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:05PM (#11490652)

Especially since "driver-error" is the cause of 94% of motor vehicle crashes in the U.S.[1], with 32,675 people killed and 2.3 million injured in 2014.[2] Worldwide, motor-vehicle crashes cause over 1.2 million deaths each year and are the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15-29 years old.[3]

It's estimated that self-driving cars could reduce vehicle crashes by approximately 90%! [4]

[1] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/812115.pdf [2] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812219.pdf [3] http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st... [4] http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/o...

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by takeda on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:08PM (#11491752)

This is true for a single car, but self driving cars are introducing something that did not happen before. Imagine majority of cars are self driving cars and they all malfunctions due to bug in software update.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by executesorder66 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @07:23AM (#11495693)

> and they all malfunctions due to bug in software update.

That's assuming everyone with a self driving car is driving the exact same model and they all updated at the exact same time. Chances are there will be many different models and manufactures so an OTA update with a bug will only affect a much smaller percentage of the self driving cars.

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