[SystemSafety] Autonomously Driven Car Kills Pedestrian

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2018-03-23 17:40 , Michael Jackson wrote:
> 
> So the responsibility in overseeing autonomous driving is worse than that of an old-fashioned 
> driving instructor in a dual-control car, teaching an untrusted learner—you can’t even order 
> the software to slow down: in short, it is far more demanding and stressful than driving the 
> car yourself. 
Spot on, as usual.

Woods and Sarter, in their seminal study of pilots using A320 automation, found it was worse than
that. When the situation got odd, rather than cutting out the automation and taking control ("first,
fly the airplane"), they found the crew inclined to try to debug the automation.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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