OTA updates won't save buggy autonomous vehicle software
There is a feeling that it's OK for software to ship with questionable quality if you have the ability to send out updates quickly. You might be able to get away for this with human-driven vehicles, but for autonomous vehicles (no human driver responsible for safety) this strategy might collapse. Right now, companies are all pushing hard to do quick-turn Over The Air (OTA) software updates, with Tesla being the poster child of both shipping dodgy software and pushing out quick updates (not all of which actually solve the problem as intended). There is a moral hazard that comes with the ability to do quick OTAs in that you might not spend much time on quality since you know you can just send another update if the first one doesn't turn out as you hoped. "There's definitely the mindset that you can fix fast so you can take a higher risk," Florian Rohde, a former Tesla validation manager ( https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-recalls-idTRNIKBN2KN171 ) For now comp