But maybe we can make potentially crash inducing actions in the cockpit of a plane (like shutting off fuel to engines) something that requires input from two pilots.
One of the reasons we have two pilots is for redundancy in the case that a single pilot becomes incapacitated (or during emergencies, overloaded). How would a technology enforced rule that requires two pilots to agree on something work if one of them is incapacitated? Sure, you could have some system where a single pilot could override that rule, but then you are back to a single pilot making the decision. You could have additional monitoring so that if one pilot does something weird, the other is alerted, but in this case the other pilot noticed immediately (the voice recorder caught one pilot asking the other, "why did you do that"?), so additional monitoring would not have helped.
As others have noted, ultimately you have to trust the pilots as there are lots of ways a pilot desiring to do so could crash a plane.
Cursive is shit though and people should stop using it. If we're only keeping it around for signatures we should just learn to accept doing them without. They can learn fine motor skills in an art class.
That would be fine if we were willing to require art classes. Shop classes could also train for fine motor skills as long as the projects included some precision work. I believe the requirements should include *some* form of fine motor skill development.
Depending on your opinion of if the goal of primary school should be to train free thinking or train compliance (I think schools should do a bit of both), training cursive teaches kids to follow instructions and achieve a specific result (well formed cursive letters that others can unambiguously identify) whereas art is generally a more free form effort (one kids drawing of a horse may be very different than another's, and all don't need to agree that it is a horse). If you want to train compliance and prepare people for the workforce and general societal interaction, shop classes might be a better cursive alternative than art classes. Of course art has value to society as well.
Seems to me the way to fix this, and by this I mean bad driving behavior by self driving vehicles, is to make C-Level executives personally responsible for the actions of the driving software. Find a way to "pierce the corporate veil" and issue the traffic infractions to specific high level people in corporations.
Yeah, it's a pipe dream as corporations won't stand for it and kind of own congress, but hey we can dream right?
>OTA updates cost automakers $66.50 per vehicle for each gigabyte of data, Harman Automotive estimates.
What nonsense. When Tesla sends an update. it comes in over the internet, to my house and onto the car via wifi. I'm guessing Tesla isn't paying $66 per gigabyte for their ISP service and neither am I.
In cases where the vehicle can join a WIFI hot spot, this is true. For other cases cellular data is used and that gets expensive (I don't know if it's $66/GB expensive, but it certainly isn't free). If an auto manufacture wants to be able to confidently be able to remote manage vehicles, they can't depend on WIFI. For the bulk of the audience here (myself included), we generally abhor the concept of our vehicles being remote managed as well as anything that leads to a world of "car as a subscription service" but from an auto manufacturer point of view, an always online vehicle is a path toward remote management and car as a service. WIFI doesn't cut it for "always online".
It isn't easy being the parent of a six-year-old. However, it's a pretty small price to pay for having somebody around the house who understands computers.
