Daily Archives: July 13, 2016


The lesson to engineers working on autonomous systems, don't ever assume the person between the steering wheel and seat will do the right thing

The lesson to engineers working on autonomous systems, don't ever assume the person between the steering wheel and seat will do the right thing. Design your systems to be robust to the human element or degrade gracefully.

Tesla Autopilot Accidents Demonstrates Need To Design For Robustness In Autonomous Systems
The auto pilot settings screen indicates that the features are still in beta although most customer probably don’t realize what this means (photo credit: Sam Abuelsamid) Among people that work in computer tech support there is a pejorative acronym that is used all too frequently, PEBKAC. It stands for problem exists […]