Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier

Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by volkl48 on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:03PM (#16777413)

The saying in those fields is "the rules are written in blood". The Therac-25 (a medical device) is taught in practically every CS Ethics class for having changed software development practices for such things.

The cynic in me thinks self-driving will require the same, the rules and conservative practices will only come after a bunch of highly publicized, avoidable failures that leave their own trail of blood.

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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by jacquesm on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:05PM (#16777893)

I wonder how the public would respond if the person killed in that Uber accident a while ago was a kid on a bicycle and how the response will be when/if a Tesla on autopilot plows into a schoolbus (a situation they seem to have problems with is stationary objects partially in a lane).

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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by Piskvorrr on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:06PM (#16777901)

If there's anything left to be conservative upon. Current climate of "drive fast and kill people" might wipe out the field via PR.

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