FYI: letter to the editor at Crain Automotive News

[Jack Ring]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Patricia Foley <pfo...@crain.com>

Subject: letter to the editor

Date: December 28, 2016 at 7:33:06 AM MST

To: Jack Ring <jri...@gmail.com>

Here’s a copy of the edited letter, fyi. The headline will be added later. – Patricia Foley

 

To the Editor:

Despite the dramatic losses affecting businesses today because of computer software that is rife with bugs and susceptible to cyberactions, the autonomous vehicle race is on.

Replacing error-prone drivers with error-prone computer programmers probably will not work out. Each autonomous vehicle is dependent on the quality of hundreds of millions of lines of code. Each is likely to have tens of thousands of latent faults waiting to happen. Many vehicles are recalled because of software defects.

My quick review of the 60 movers and shakers described in the Dec. 19 Automotive News (“60 who are steering self-driving vehicles”) indicates that none is focused on this issue. You have been warned. Before financial losses and legal exposures wreck the industry, autonomous vehicle aficionados had better learn how to make zero-fault software.

 

JACK RING

Gilbert, Ariz.