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Re:People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon... by rsynnott on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:55AM (#21107361)
Let’s say you make an amazing new consumer gas central heating boiler, and shout about it on Twitter to your adoring followers. And if someone switches it on without opening the water valves, it explodes and kills them. You say “oh, the manual says not to do that”. How do you think that would fly?

Consumer products have to be designed to be safe against consumers, to a large extent. You can’t just add a feature, add a disclaimer that says, in effect, “don’t use this”, and blame the user if they use the feature.

Re:People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon... by donatj on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:11PM (#21107852)
I don’t understand if this argument is sarcasm or not? I don’t have a boiler but I have a water heater and know if I don’t manually start the pilot light after having shut off the gas I could die.

Technology has always required basic understanding to avoid harm.