Tech Musing #2: Google's self-driving car at fault in accident

Article Link: http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/29/autos/google-self-driving-car-accident/index.html

Summary:

The article describes about the Google’s fault in their self driving car accident that happened last week in California. Google said that they already had 17 minor accidents involving its self-driving car but so far non of them were cars’ or technical fault. This accident was the first time in their history of testing google self-driving car with technical failure because they have already accumulated more than 1 million miles of autonomous driving vehicles. Both the vehicle was in low speed, there were no report of major injuries. Later google made a statement, ‘this type of misunderstanding happens between human drivers on the road every day. This is a classic example of the negotiation that’s a normal part of driving—we are trying to predict each other’s movements’. It was in the residence area and the speed was very low, what if this accident was in the high way where the autonomous vehicle was in 65 miles per hour. In my opinion, this type of mistake should not have considered normal because this could cause or take number of lives and it is more proof that robot car technology is not ready for auto pilot. In this case, google bear the responsibility of the accident, because if their car hadn’t moved, there wouldn’t have been a collision.

Relevance:

I picked this article because this testing of self driving car is relevant to our course because this analysis, design, algorithm, testing, coding, and implementation is a part of system development life cycle. If there is some error in one phase, the outcome will be not successful as we thought. Google said it has reviewed this incident and from now on, their cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in the future. It is clearly stated that they had problem with software and already refined it very well. This accident has helped google to improve an important skills and patch their loophole in their system.

Importance to MIS student:

In the field of management information system, it is important to get involve with the new technology emerging around the world. It might take some time to get familiar with the autonomous vehicle for the people but it is true that it is coming in future. For MIS student it necessary to move with along with technological revolution. I always read tech news and gather information from the company they had corrected that helps us to fix the problem for our project in the future. The companies that plan ahead, and imagine the biggest will survive and thrive. Finally, this article grasps the attention of growing technology of self driving car and for security and privacy concern, all the data transmitted to, from, and within the vehicle are safe because autonomous vehicle need to rely on its data and the source of that data to make quick, accurate decisions and to prevent, identify, and isolate malicious threats.