George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars

Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by zck on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:18PM (#17524247)

> California’s DMV requires all companies testing self-driving cars to report how many times safety operators were forced to take control of its vehicles.

You make what you measure. This encourages companies to have their safety operators take over less often: if you tell the operators to err on the side of safety and take over more often, your car will look less safe.

I don't have a solution here, just pointing out how this actually can benefit companies that care less about safety.

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Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by mcny on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:12PM (#17528170)

Sorry if this is a stupid question but what does California do with these numbers? If Wayne has 10 engagements per mile driven with 10M miles driven and Tesla has 2 per mile with 500k miles driven and Uber has 1 per mile with 1M miles driven (all made up numbers), will there be some sort of penalty for below average scorers? Is it possible to categorically say who is the best? How does this work?

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Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by lern_too_spel on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:13PM (#17528173)

It just makes the data public.

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Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by masonic on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:40AM (#17529301)

What are the consequences of not reporting those accurately, and how would anyone know?

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