[SystemSafety] What Tesla says about its autopilot

[Olwen Morgan]

Given that Elon Musk's SpaceX launchers seem to be behaving reasonably 
well, should we perhaps stop saying that things, "aren't rocket science" 
and start saying that they're not automotive engineering?

Olwen



On 04/12/2018 12:49, Andy Ashworth wrote:
> Hardware by itself will not assure safety (crash protection and 
> restraint, yes, but functional safety no). Equally, software in 
> isolation is no guarantee of safety.
>
> We need to recognize that a vehicle is a complex system and ensure 
> that we are adopting appropriate system-safety engineering techniques 
> to identify and mitigate the system risk. Software development 
> processes and physical hardware are elements of the overall system 
> mitigation... by themselves they are nothing more than throw-away 
> lines in marketing documents.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy Ashworth
>
>
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> Haworth, David <david.haworth at elektrobit.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 4, 2018 07:13
> *To:* Peter Bernard Ladkin
> *Cc:* The System Safety List
> *Subject:* Re: [SystemSafety] What Tesla says about its autopilot
> Hi everyone,
>
> On 2018-12-04 07:17:31 +0100, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> > Apparently Tesla is claiming great things for its technology:
> >
> > [begin quote]
> > Palo Alto-based Tesla's website states that "all Tesla vehicles 
> produced in our factory, including
> > Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability 
> at a safety level substantially
> > greater than that of a human driver."
> > [end quote]
>
> Does it say anything about the software?
>
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