There’s a lot of uncertainty about driverless cars and trucks on the roads today, even though we can predict that autonomous vehicles will soon be able to negotiate trips with greater coordination, speed and safety than their human-operated counterparts.
Perhaps fear remains for good reason, because in complex traffic scenarios, any vehicle can encounter sudden changes at a velocity where physical things like bumpers, crumple zones and airbags, and even steering and brakes may not save the passenger, or a pedestrian.
At the highest speeds, sensors, predictive adjustments and telemetry—and the ability for a skilled driver to intervene—become far more important for autonomous car safety than all the physical countermeasures you can think of.
What does this have to do with DevOps? Just like our future-self-driving cars, we’re seeing a plethora of autonomous tools associated with DevOps. Each has its own style of automation, data review, AI/ML learning, error checking and sensory capabilities targeted at accelerating the continuous delivery of software, and its associated operational infrastructure.
What will it take to make autonomous systems safe and reliable enough for enterprise scale DevOps adoption?
An Intelligent Real-Time Ops Lane
Many experts in the autonomous vehicle space predict that in the near future, driverless cars will have their own dedicated lanes on any high-traffic roads. Since AI-based drivers wouldn’t need to deal with the unpredictable reaction times of human drivers, a dedicated autonomous lane could allow them to merge, ride and exit the flow of traffic without hesitation.
The parallels between this autonomous traffic lane concept, and the automated deployment and software and infrastructure pipelines offered to today’s DevOps teams are too strong to ignore…
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