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Search review text. Larry Ludwig. An enjoyable read about Alex Roy's escapades trying to beat the best time road race across America. Maureen Tapio. Found it after watching VINWiki videos. Enjoy those too! Five more words are required, whoosh. The memoir "The Driver" by Alexander Roy is a thrilling account of Alex's experiences in the underground racing scene.

This side of motor sport became Alex's life after his father, on his death bed, hinted at the highly illegal, extremely dangerous cross country race from LA to New York. It is important that we assign the appropriate roles to the human component and technological component. Even in autonomous vehicles, humans are involved very much in the design, the implementation and the maintenance of these devices, and we must assign the proper roles to each part of the technology.

Two things jump out at me in any attempt to make important recommendations going forward. We have to account for what we cannot know yet.

We have to allow for the unknown unknowns. In that case the technology has to be so good, so resilient, so adaptable and so reliable that human intervention is never necessary. The more you take humans out of engagement with the process, the less likely you make them able to quickly and effectively intervene.

I think in the distant future that might be a possibility. Not in the near term, in my lifetime. We may have gone too far in the use of technology that removes human operators from immediate engagement with the process. This degrades their manual skills and leaves them with less confidence to be able to quickly and effectively intervene.

Some [pilots] have continued to use technology past the point when they should have abandoned it, or used degraded modes of technology, or even taken over completely manually. That also delays the response. I think we really need to rethink our cockpits and areas like nuclear power control rooms. Humans are inherently poor monitors.

It would be much better — at least at a conceptual level — for humans to have more direct engagement with the operation, and technology to provide guardrails to prevent us from making egregious errors, and to monitor our performance. That would be, in terms of our inherent abilities and limitations, a much better way to go. Regarding your Hudson water landing, it would appear that because you were in an Airbus, with flight envelope protections, you were able to focus on decision-making rather than managing of the aircraft itself.

It seems as if a less experienced pilot in that seat would not have been able to make the decisions you made. Or—if it had been a Boeing—the pilots might have had to spend more time managing the aircraft rather than deciding where to put down. Does that make sense? I think had we been in a Boeing, as long as the airplane was similarly configured with wing mounted engines, etc. A little known part of the experience is that not only did we not exceed the limitations beyond which the Airbus flight control protections would have protected us from ourselves, but at the very end of the flight, right as we were landing and trading some of our forward velocity for a reduced-rate of descent at touchdown—in other words, raising the nose to achieve the maximum aerodynamic performance of the wing right before landing—a little known part of the software of the Airbus flight control system inhibited me from achieving the last bit of lift out of the wing, even though I was not yet at maximum performance of the wing.

As I was calling for more performance from the wing by continually pulling back on the sidestick to raise the nose even more to make it a softer touchdown, the Phugoid mode of the Airbus flight control software prohibited me from achieving that last little bit of nose-up control, and we hit a little bit harder than I think we should have.

There was a little bit more damage to the airplane, and water was being taken on after we landed a little bit faster than it would have if we had not struck so hard. We did the best we could, considering we were using gravity to provide the forward motion of the airplane. One flight attendant was injured when a piece of metal came up through the floor from the cargo compartment and gouged her leg.

All those things happened in the last seconds of the flight where the flight control computers prevented me from achieving the maximum performance of the wing. Driving anything is an awesome responsibility, no less than waving a gun at a crowd of people one has no intention of shooting. Almost everyone I know says they're a good driver, but that's statistically impossible.

Unless and until every human driver makes a good faith effort to meet a higher standard — whether mandated or not — their opinions on safety are irrelevant. There are two kinds of people in this world; those that would sacrifice others for the greater good, and those that would sacrifice themselves.

The first, made up of the extreme wings of the pro- and anti- self-driving car debate, are guilty of dehumanizing everyone they would claim to care about. The second is anyone and everyone with a moral center.

If you want to improve road safety, if you want to save a life, all you need to sacrifice is one day and some dough. Vote for higher standards. Don't drink and drive. Let's make seatbelt interlocks mandatory. Put down your phone. Educate yourself on how safety features actually work.