[SystemSafety] More on Bookout-Schwarz/Toyota

[Nancy Leveson]

Is this a fair summary?

For one thing, as I understand it, NASA was not allowed to look at the
detailed code. The NASA results are meaningless.

Nancy


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Andrew Rae <andrew.rae at york.ac.uk> wrote:

> Peter,
> Thanks for finding and sharing these. Can I ask for an opinion from you
> and others who have followed this, on the likely situation.
>
> My understanding (as someone with no inside information, just following
> press and academic opinion):
>
> 1) The reports of unintended acceleration follow the pattern of
> socially-propogated concerns, making it possible, maybe probable, that
>      there were no underlying unintended acceleration events caused by
> software faults
>
> 2) None of the car models concerned had an independent recording device
> allowing _other_ causes of the unintended acceleration to to be confirmed.
>
> 3) The NASA report found problems with the software, but none that they
> thought were likely to be a cause of unintended accleration under the
> circumstances of
>  the set of accidents they looked at.
>
> 4) The Bookout trial evidence was heavily critical of the software, and
> found plausible ways that unintended acceleration could be caused by the
> software, but nothing directly linking these possibilities to the Bookout
> events.
>
> Is this a fair summary?
>
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>
> On 9 November 2013 18:53, Peter Bernard Ladkin <
> ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
>> This analysis goes deeper than what I've seen to date. It links parts of
>> Phil Koopman's testimony (Phil tells me he is not the source) and *Barr's
>> slides*, which like his testimony, are an object lesson in presentation.
>>
>>
>> http://www.safetyresearch.net/2013/11/07/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-the-big-bowl-of-spaghetti-code/
>>
>> PBL
>>
>> Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, University of Bielefeld and Causalis Limited
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