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Recommended reads

[SCSC-rec11] The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Taleb
[SCSC-rec8] Understanding Air France 447 - Bill Palmer
[SCSC-rec4] High Integrity Software - John Barnes
The SPARK Approach to Safety and Security
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[SCSC-rec12] How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane
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Author: Laurie Clarke
Publisher: Guardian News & Media Limited
Abstract:
The technology behind autonomous vehicles has proved devilishly hard to perfect. And progress hasn’t been helped by Tesla boss Elon Musk’s army of  …    The technology behind autonomous vehicles has proved devilishly hard to perfect. And progress hasn’t been helped by Tesla boss Elon Musk’s army of superfans.  
Recommendation:
This is an article by Laurie Clarke entitled How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane. It includes a number of comments from one of our past  …    This is an article by Laurie Clarke entitled How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane. It includes a number of comments from one of our past SSS keynote speakers, Phil Koopman.  
Recomended by: Tom Anderson
[SCSC-rec2] Safeware: System Safety and Computers - Nancy Leveson
A guide to preventing accidents and losses caused by technology.
[SCSC-rec9] Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, And How We Can Fix It - Ben Goldacre
[SCSC-rec10] The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward - Benoit B Mandelbrot and Richard L Hudson
[SCSC-rec6] The Positive Power of Negative Thinking - Julie K Norem
[SCSC-rec7] The Challenger Disaster
Film starring Eric Hanson
[SCSC-rec3] Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents - James Reason
[SCSC-rec1] Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters - David Hand
A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing data
[SCSC-rec5] The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman