George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars

Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by jimnotgym on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:29AM (#17529268)

When George demonstrated his first model I showed a friend who designs safety critical systems. To paraphrase he said, that of course you can hack something together in a weekend that does this.

However a analysing a million edge cases, making sure all failures fail in a safe way takes a lot of time and knowledge.

It made me think that this is a great demonstration of the difference between hobbyist hacking and professional engineering.

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Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by jsiepkes on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:27AM (#17529396)

> that of course you can hack something together in a weekend that does this. However a analysing a million edge cases, making sure all failures fail in a safe way takes a lot of time and knowledge.

Thats true for a lot of things. Most developers can whip up a Slack clone in a weekend, create an uber clone in a weekend or create a Netflix clone in a weekend. But dealing with all the edge cases, the details, making it scalable, etc. that's were the pain is.

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