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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by blhack on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:54PM (#12749107)
Whoa...reading that doesn't rub me the right way at all. I trust Tesla, though, so maybe I'm misreading/misinterpreting it.
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by ams6110 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @09:35PM (#12749274)
Why do you trust Tesla? In what ways are their interests aligned with yours?
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by 2bitencryption on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:25AM (#12749723)
Why would you not trust Tesla? Are their interests not aligned with yours?
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by amadvance on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:54AM (#12749996)
Usually companies are mainly interested on getting money from me...
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by serge2k on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:35AM (#12749934)
Clearly they aren't, they are trying to limit what I can do with my vehicle.
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by imtringued on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:35AM (#12750361)
From an economic perspective there is no difference between a product that can't do X and a product that could do X but it's not enabled or limited in some way.

Implementing logic in an ASIC which cannot be modified and implementing logic with an embedded processor where the software can be modified but this feature is disabled is the same thing. Both are intended to be black boxes that just do one thing and nothing else. Yet for some reason you expect to be able to modify the embedded processor.

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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by huihe9849hjjgkg on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @11:55PM (#12749639)
Trying to save the planet would be one way.
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Re:All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving ... by Symmetry on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:36AM (#12752574)
It's easy to assume that because Tesla is idealistic about climate change they're also idealistic about free software.
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