There are safety standards for automobile software: ISO 26262.
Software for steering or braking systems is of high quality. It's not the same team that does the infotainment.
Software for steering or braking systems is of high quality. It's not the same team that does the infotainment.
I disable the "land assist" every time (which often tries to steer me into wildlife or other cars and was clearly not built for use on a single track country roads with hedges and random verges), but this was the first time in 3 years that the "front assist" caused problems.
If that's "high quality", I dread to think what low quality would be.
I'm one of them. Yet I still haven't had a situation where "lane assist" or "front assist" has actually been a good thing.
I am now of the opinion that a car should never under any circumstance drive for you. If a car has cruise control it should cruise control you into a wall. That I can at least anticipate.
The decision to do an emergency break is the same problem fully self-driving cars need. You need to interpret sensory input and have a model of the environment.
Ironically some genius made these systems mandatory despite them being a safety concern. Granted, they tend to work if someone really falls asleep behind the wheel.
On one of our cars, it is fine. On the other, it’s so bad they should have to buyback the last N years of vehicles. I hear the same high-variance story from friends.
The standards for this stuff are completely inadequate.
It states that consumer reports, (a for profit company providing independent reviews, and not a regulatory body) said the Model 3 stopping distance was not good. Allegedly due to a “bad ABS calibration”. Tesla released an OTA SW update.
Why wasn’t the bad calibration and degraded performance caught by regulators testing automobile safety standards?
The article also posits that this ability to make OTA updates expands the (IMO very very bad) SWE perspective that “it’s OK to ship unfinished and buggy products” into safety critical systems.
It sounds like their ABS system wasn't designed as carefully as conventional systems if there was such poor braking performance. Reading around, it might have been related to the emergency brake assist functionality not being calibrated properly.
Another consequence is that ISO-26262 and most other standards are completely, 100% norm-based in the US. They're used because the industry expects them, not because there's a legal requirement. You can deviate all you want and the only consequence is that regulators might take a closer look at your paperwork in the event of issues because they look unusual.
That is a piece of paper.
> Software for steering or braking systems is of high quality.
There's literally no way for me to know that before I trust my life with it.
I do not. A more charitable way to phrase that is "We are all expected to." And yes, well spotted, this problem extends well beyond vehicles. Or are you suggesting that this is somehow indicative that there are no problems? How would we all know if there _was_ an error in a device?
> those that conform to “piece of paper” standards, such as ISO 15708
That standard deals with non destructive testing and has no material that is related to the practice of medicine or the use of medical imaging scanners. It's not even the right piece of paper.