I've been concerned about the "move fast and actually break things" aspect of autonomous devices for the past year and a half because I view malcode pushed from the update server as a mass damage event / equivalent to weapons of mass destruction if intentional.

I'm not sure how it is now, but according to someone talking to me privately at one company early programmers were SSHing into fucking moving cars with passengers and running commands on them and had it not been for the layers of redundant code would have crashed the car.

We need to regulate autonomous devices and we need to do it before there are billions of them. We need a public effort to get policy makers open source outlines of regulations; otherwise the car companies are going to be writing them and they aren't going to write in protections against black swan events and we're going to get the autonomous equivalent of a BP oil spill or worse one day.