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Philip Koopman

Carnegie Mellon professor working on self-driving-car safety; writes the Safe Autonomy blog.

10 books on the record · 1 Jul 2026 – 1 Jul 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Engineering a Safer World by Nancy Leveson

Leveson (Paper Index) Software Safety: why, what and how 1986 (ACM) (longer version: 1995 Safeware Book) High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software Engineering a Safer World (includes link for free PDF download)

on safeautonomy.blogspot.com · 1 Jul 2026 · Report

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Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow

To Engineer is Human, Petroski, 1992. Design of Everyday Things, Norman, 2013, Chapter 5: "Human Error? No, Bad Design" Normal Accidents, Perrow, 1984

on safeautonomy.blogspot.com · 1 Jul 2026 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.