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In Design of Future Things, ex-Apple UX designer Don Norman interviews (anonymous) engineers of a self-driving car:

DN: "It sped up when we left the freeway instead of slowing down on the exit, that was dangerous. Why did that happen?"

ENG: "Car saw it was on a straightaway. We'll add a rule to handle that."

DN: "So you have to add rules for every possible situation? Doesn't that mean that the car is always at risk for what it doesn't know about yet?"

ENG: "That's Not-A-Problem. We will classify everything."

[jacquesm]

That's an incredibly stupid answer. It is precisely this kind of thinking that makes me worry about sharing the road with alpha grade self driving hardware. There is real potential for carnage here, at highway speeds it doesn't take that big of a software bug to get a lot of people killed.