ISO 26262

Abstract: ASIL E is not a published standard. Its real value is not the name of a higher integrity level, but the question it forces Level 4 and Level 5 autonomous-driving safety arguments to answer: when there is no human fallback, can the safety case still credit a human controller? For me, the useful translation is not “ASIL E compliance.” It is a no-human-fallback review lens, four evidence fields in ADSafetyPilot, and a feedback loop connecting ROAM, DRIVEResearch, and a field-monitoring-backed safety case. ...

Abstract: In Q1 2026, “Harness Engineering” surfaced almost simultaneously at OpenAI, Anthropic, and the Chinese startup Nextie, and the “12 Primitives” converged in the open-source community as a shared taxonomy. This essay argues that essentially all mainstream investment in Harness has concentrated in a single dimension — user experience, performance, efficiency — while the dimension that actually determines market access in Safety-Critical domains (autonomous driving, medical AI, financial risk control) has been collectively skipped: safety compliance. By constructing a two-way mapping between the 12 Harness Primitives and SOTIF (ISO 21448), this essay identifies 12 concrete research directions, offered as a starting point for standardization bodies, corporate R&D, third-party institutions, and academic labs to jointly fill in this commons. A ~3000-word Chinese short form is available on the author’s WeChat channel. ...