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I can't imagine the level of stupidity required for Google to make such a request. Google's own reports (which they resist being required to provide) show quite clearly that human drivers are frequently a very necessary supplement to their autonomous systems:

"Between September 2014 and November 2015, Google said there were 272 occasions when a technology failure forced the test driver to re-take control."
https://ia.acs.org.au/news/goo...

And this request comes shortly after a Google car was found fully-responsible for crashing into a bus:

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

And that's not a one-off... Google's small fleet of self-driving cars are getting in numerous accidents. 8% is the last figure I saw. Google spins it as the fault of everyone else except its own vehicles, but that claim is specious at best:

http://gizmodo.com/self-drivin...

There's ample evidence that self-driving cars do several things which (while they MIGHT be safe if all cars were autonomous) cause clashes with existing human drivers on the road:

http://pipedot.org/story/2015-...

Even the much-simpler task, of drive-by-wire in existing automobiles has proven too unreliable to trust human lives with. Toyota screwed this up badly, and it has cost them dearly:

http://www.eetimes.com/documen...

First is shorter (which seems to also to be the case in the NYC situation):

. http://www.acs.org.au/publication/docs/ACS_CodeofEthicsAndCasesFinal.pdf

. http://www.acs.org.au/documents/codes/CodeofProfConductPractice.pdf

First is shorter (which seems to also to be the case in the NYC situation):

. http://www.acs.org.au/publication/docs/ACS_CodeofEthicsAndCasesFinal.pdf

. http://www.acs.org.au/documents/codes/CodeofProfConductPractice.pdf

They should not be confused with the American Constitution Society

And the Australian Computer Society.

Some researchers at Flinders Uni in South Australia did something similar in 2003. Their system used video to enhance the reliability of the speech recognition software. I'm not sure if they have taken it any further, but it's a great concept. Here's one of their Papers [220KB pdf].

In a speech to the Australian National Press Club said:

"when the anthropologists look back on the 1980s and 1990s and do the archaeological digs and they get their callipers and brooms and microscopes out, they're going to blame the massive reduction in productivity and lowering and slow-down in the standard of living during the 1980s and 1990s that we are living through right now - they're going to blame it entirely on Microsoft Office.".

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Kilgore Trout

Max Burnett is a founding member of the Australian Computing Museum Society and I think you will find the PDP9, and probably most of the rest, are part of its collection and that Mr Burdett is storing them since the ACMS does not have a permanent home. They were possibly collected by Mr Burnett in the first place and donated to the society, but they would still be part of the ACMS collection. Any ACMS members care to fill in the details?

Presumably you too could join the ACMS and after a while have a house full of vintage computers too! :-)

If the following link doesn't get you there, just access the organization's home page & search for "Code of Ethics"...

  http://acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=show&conID=coe

I'd be interested in other IT (or Engineering) societies' Codes of Ethics (or similar)...

Kindly post links in a reply to this post, thanks.

http://www.acs.org.au/president/1996/atm/npc/im961 009.htm

National Press Club - IM Forum
Speaker: Mr Scott McNealy
President Sun Microsystems
Wednesday, 9 October 1996

"The second big investment is to upgrade your PC. I don't have any reason why we would want to do that, but, think about it - do we really need more spreadsheets? Do we really need more word processors? I just S we did a survey at Sun. We had 12.9 gigabytes of Powerpoint slides in storage on our disk drives. Ha ha ha. It freaks me out just to think about. Do you how many person sentries that is? Of clip-art manipulations? I banned Powerpoint from our company - I just edicted it."

Earlier in that article, he mentions how he's only ever used word processors with four features: "backspace, delete, cut and paste and print"

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19294279.html
Chief Executive Magazine
Date: 3/1/1997
Computing's second Punic war.
(interview with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy)

"Personally, I got so frustrated with clip art and presentation graphics that I banned Power Point from our company 10 months ago. Our earnings have skyrocketed and our stock price has nearly doubled since that time. I have seen absolutely nothing but productivity gained by banning word processors with more than four features and Power Point-like graphics, or presentations graphics programs."

Join the IEEE Computer Society instead.

http://www.computer.org/

Brits: The British Computer Society

http://www.bcs.org.uk/

Aussies: The Australian Computer Society

http://www.acs.org.au/

etc etc.

There are no 'shop organisers' and none of the usual 'the workers' versus 'the bosses' rhetoric. So there is no conflict of interest; I don't tell them things that are commerical in confidence. This organisation is not interested in forcing a one-size-fits-all on employee or unions. (Although it has worked towards saftey net conditions.) This is not quite the balanced organisation you might like to see -- but it does balance my own country's employer body, the AIIA.

I've also found APESMA membership to be better value than my other membership of the more traditional IT professional society, the ACS, which seems more concerned with prestige and suit-ish stuff that I do not understand. But apparently others do, because Lawyers, Accountants, and the like see membership of the ACS as being a badge of 'professionalism' of the same value as membership of their more established professional societies.

There are diciplinary action for breaches to.