The Economist (March 16)
“The challenge of what engineers call the ‘human-machine interface’ has tragically gained attention after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 max 8 on March 10th.” But the challenge is not confined to flying. The same issues create perils in semi autonomous cars, trains and ships. “Studies have shown that when people have to wrest control from an automated system, it can take them around five seconds to grasp what is happening.”
Forbes (September 15)
Plans to have autonomous cars on the roads in a few years are over optimistic. “This timetable is unrealistic. In fact, the widespread use of driverless cars will not happen for at least another 20 years.” The “intractable obstacle” facing driverless cars is “the extreme difficulty of moving from semiautonomous to fully autonomous.” Consumers wrongly “assume that the transition to full autonomy is an easy next step from the myriad semiautonomous features already in use today.”
