George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’

Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by zodPod on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:04PM (#12819562)

I don't necessarily disagree with you but one thing that I think a lot of people are seeing is you are relinquishing control of your car to a computer. When I think of computers I often think of things that I CAN MAKE WORK but that aren't inherently trustworthy. Sure they're great for things like math and stuff but when I try to run a new piece of software I expect crashes and they generally happen. NOT ALL SOFTWARE. But a good bit of first gen software.

So do I really want untested first gen software released without extreme safety standards and heavy testing? No. Do I think the net result of that happening would be a safer driving experience? No. Give me the iOS 9 or so of self driving car software or the unix. Not the Amazon Fire phone.

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Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by mikeash on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:34PM (#12819850)

I totally agree on this. Putting my life in the hands of software makes me nervous. I've seen how software is made. But I do it anyway....

I'm not sure if it's entirely relevant here, since the comment above presumes that these systems are safer than humans, and the reply doesn't seem to be questioning that.

I think it's very likely that these systems will rapidly become far better than human drivers, and probably already are in the domains where they're meant to be used. But we definitely can't just take that on faith and hope it's being done properly.

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