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We’ll that’s what you’re hoping for.

However I think this is why self-driving cars aren’t necessarily going so well. In some ways they are, in other ways they fail catastrophically. Maybe statistically the self driving cars are better performers but form a product perspective, having a failure mode of death or serious injury isn’t a good thing.

The black box has failure modes we don’t understand, like crashing into fire trucks.

So black boxes are good for experiments, but please don’t hook up the black box to a nuclear missile solo, or airplane cockpit just yet thanks.




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