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Re:Safety Numbers on Autonomous Cars Don't Add Up by carlmr on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:37AM (#16314921)
>The only way we'll get the "right" way of autonomous software development is if there is extensive and careful regulation with very rigorous auditing and process requirements.

From what I've seen that doesn't really make a difference either. Companies will follow the regulation on paper, but not in spirit. That's already happening in other heavily regulated areas of software development. My experience has actually been that heavy regulation makes for worse software, because the company starts spending more time on lawyers and "quality engineers" driving up meaningless metrics than maintainable clean code.

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Re:Safety Numbers on Autonomous Cars Don't Add Up by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:50AM (#16315279)
So basically, it's too late.

Maybe regulators should have been preemptively putting barriers in front of commercializing (then) sci-fi level tech. When there's no competitive pressure and rushing to be first to market, when it's just university people on DARPA funding developing the tech, you can afford to have it done The Right Way. Now that people are excited and build companies around self-driving, we'll only get Worse is Better.

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