Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

Re:Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building ... by drugme on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:26PM (#20219480)

I haven't seen anyone from Tesla or Uber going to jail when people died because they're beta testing autonomous cars on public roads.

As cold and cynical it is, what the self-driving car "pioneers" are doing -- it's not nearly as reckless (and flat-out clueless) as what this guy did.

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Re:Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building ... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @07:55PM (#20219647)

It is far more reckless to expose everyone in the public to your murder machines than one hapless contractor.

We don't allow people to drive without seatbelts because of the risk of them losing control and causing avoidable fatalities but half-baked autonomous machines vaguely guessing about what might be in front of them are perfectly ok?

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Re:Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building ... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:48PM (#20219920)

Do Teslas on autopilot kill more people than regular cars? Murder machines seems a bit hyperbole, no?

Disclaimer: Written from my Model S at a Supercharger, having driven over 10k miles on autopilot/navigate on autopilot in the last 6 months

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Re:Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building ... by jasonmp85 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:54PM (#20219951)

Murder machines describes all cars, not just your precious Tesla.

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Re:Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building ... by gbear605 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:14PM (#20220062)

Then why are you only railing against some of them?

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