The New YorkerVerified account @NewYorker Why our minds make mistakes inevitable: http://nyer.cm/GucFekQ “The problem is that we imagine how things will go right but not how they will go wrong.” Predicts future failings of automated...
Communicating Uncertainty When Lives Are on the Line Showing when and where natural disasters like hurricanes are going to cause damage is not just a question of aesthetics – it is literally a matter...
The first safety report for self-driving cars submitted to NHTSA. Waymo describes its Safety by Design philosophy https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/waymo-safety-report-2017-10.pdf …
Ironies of big data: A more sophisticated model leads to greater trust AND greater risk that it fail dramatically.
The US almost leads the world in traffic safety (in a bad way)
Considering deaths per kilometer the US looks much better than when considering deaths per 100k of population (but still not good). Korea much worse. Norway and Sweden safest by either measure.
More people die in Korea and the US in car crashes than most countries, but for different reasons. US drivers are not the worst in the world, but they also drive a lot, leading...
The US is an outlier in the rate of traffic fatalities and the trend in traffic fatalities.