Fully auditable cars will be sold if it is illegal to sell cars that aren't.
Regulators and more broadly the public has to be sold on free software being necessary for safety and and fairness. Individuals deciding to use and create free software is nice, but much like individuals deciding to compost or or recycle not drive or not breed or set aside private land, utterly inadequate: collective action is the primary lever. Even moreso in the case of software if more of it isn't directly created by human developers.
Regulators and more broadly the public has to be sold on free software being necessary for safety and and fairness. Individuals deciding to use and create free software is nice, but much like individuals deciding to compost or or recycle not drive or not breed or set aside private land, utterly inadequate: collective action is the primary lever. Even moreso in the case of software if more of it isn't directly created by human developers.
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This issues couldn't possibly be more pressing than right now. The first investigation into a fatal accident allegedly caused by autonomous driving software was just launched. How can these deadly machines be audited and certified without fully transparent software?
Benjamin Cook at 2016-07-01T18:16:08Z
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