Re Report: Software bug led to death in Uber's self-driving crash

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross.stapletongray () gmail com>
> Date: May 8, 2018 at 5:21:19 PM EDT
> To: DAVID FARBER <dave () farber net>, Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re Report: Software bug led to death in Uber's self-driving crash
>
> > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been to "V2*" (connected Vehicle to anything) gatherings in which both Caltrans (the California state 
> > transportation agency) and it's Federal counterpart have described systems in which people on bicycles and 
> > pedestrians carry devices - typically part of a smart phone - that can emit information to nearby vehicles 
> > (including other bicycles and pedestrians.)
>
> I wrote this for IoT Journal back in September: http://www.iotjournal.com/articles/view?16661 
>
> ...
> At some point, however, we're going to start seeing tipping points, at which enough smarts in the objects and the 
> infrastructure will make those unsmart things that remain more the anomaly than the norm. I wonder if it isn't too 
> soon to be thinking about a need to enroll people in the so-called Internet of Things, to put people on a par with 
> the toasters and the Teslas.
> ...
>
> Right now we're in a phase where all vehicle/people encounters feature "noncooperative" interrogation of the 
> environment and other entities, but somewhere down the road (so to speak) everything's talking to everything else (or 
> at least so many other things are also seeing uninstrumented you that everyone's aware of you).
>
> Lots of privacy issues, of course, as what you'd want to make this maximally useful for navigation would be to have 
> humans not only broadcast or share "Where I am," but "Where I am likely headed," which one can distill from things 
> like past behavior, contact lists, calendars, inertial measurement.
>
> And some folks will confirm that I was also suggesting, last fall, that someone could easily succeed with a 
> Kickstarter campaign to make and sell hats, shirts & stickers for helmets, bike frames, boots, etc., that would be 
> maximally visible in various spectra, recognizing that we're in that not-yet-all-communicating phase and will be for 
> some time.
>
> Ross
>
> Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
> Albany, CA
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