Autonomous Crashes, Fake News and Great Sources
An ‘inconvenient truth’ is when reality doesn’t match our preferences. We feel like ignoring it and just move on. Which seems to have become the rule rather than the exception lately — not the least in business. At times we even turn off the news because it’s all bad and we need a break. Or we switch to sources that tell us what we want to hear, true or not. What a mess. Want a true break? Some reality? It may be inspiring. Even my rather sad story about autonomous cars may be enlightening. Reality has this unique trait — we can do something about it.
Imagine you’re driving down a busy street. Suddenly the hood opens, blocking your view completely. What do you do? Slam on the brakes of course. And likely get rear-ended. Bad, sometimes fatal, but not something we think much about because it rarely happens. That may be changing however, and the keyword is autonomous cars: Not that the hood opens, but what happens if the software crashes? Slam on the brakes of course … like hitting the internal panic button. Full stop. Does it happen? It just did — big time. I’ll get back to that.
I’ve been an autonomous car enthusiast for years. Not that I’ve ever been in one , a car without driver in real traffic, but to me, getting human drivers (myself included) out of the equation will increase road and street safety tremendously (check out the post…
