Our Gods Haven't Crashed, Yet A Silicon Junkies' Riddle Our Highway
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Building upon the orbital debris risks explored in Our Gods Haven't Fallen, Yet A Space Junkies' Riddle Our Cathedral [O'Connor, 2025], this paper segues to terrestrial analogs in autonomous vehicle (AV) eets, where correlated failures echo Kessler Syndrome's N 2 scaling. Through a triune lensBreath (narrative), Logos (analytical), and Word (executive)we dissect how Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, with shared rmware across ∼960k1.6M vehicles today scaling to a scenario of ∼10M by 2030, could birth chain-reaction crashes and `trust debris'regulatory exiles and societal shuns persisting hours physically but years in condence erosion. Governance gaps rely on voluntary frameworks; recovery timescales span years to decades if unaddressed. Technology for sustainable AV operations exists; intentionthe will to implement known mitigationsremains the gap to prevent exile.
Engineering — Safety Engineering, Engineering — Automotive Engineering, Risk Management, Human-Machine Systems, Our Gods Haven't Crashed, Yet, Social Sciences — Public Policy, Transportation Safety, Software Reliability, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Computer Science — Software Engineering, Social Sciences — Science and Technology Studies, References: Kessler & Cour-Palais 1978 (if you want to link the foundational orbital debris paper), Law — Technology Law and Regulation, Technology Governance, Engineering — Systems Engineering, 10.5281/zenodo.17835722, Our Highway, Autonomous Systems, Economics — Risk Analysis, IsSupplementedBy / IsPartOf: 10.5281/zenodo.17835722 (Our Gods Haven't Fallen, Yet), References: Kessler & Cour-Palais 1978 (if you want to link the foundational orbital debris paper), A Silicon Junkies' Riddle
Engineering — Safety Engineering, Engineering — Automotive Engineering, Risk Management, Human-Machine Systems, Our Gods Haven't Crashed, Yet, Social Sciences — Public Policy, Transportation Safety, Software Reliability, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Computer Science — Software Engineering, Social Sciences — Science and Technology Studies, References: Kessler & Cour-Palais 1978 (if you want to link the foundational orbital debris paper), Law — Technology Law and Regulation, Technology Governance, Engineering — Systems Engineering, 10.5281/zenodo.17835722, Our Highway, Autonomous Systems, Economics — Risk Analysis, IsSupplementedBy / IsPartOf: 10.5281/zenodo.17835722 (Our Gods Haven't Fallen, Yet), References: Kessler & Cour-Palais 1978 (if you want to link the foundational orbital debris paper), A Silicon Junkies' Riddle
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