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Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by technofiend on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:58PM (#22330330)
>Alternate headline: Some people overstated how simple this problem was because they didn't know what they were talking about, could promote themselves as experts, could get funding for a self-driving startup or some combination of the above.

I jokingly call it management myopia: anything I don't understand can't be that hard.

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Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by jacquesm on Friday February 14, 2020 @04:17PM (#22330480)
> anything I don't understand can't be that hard.

Brilliant line, that probably goes a long way towards explaining why software in general simply sucks from a users perspective.

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Re:Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected by technofiend on Friday February 14, 2020 @05:16PM (#22330948)
That sounds more like any use cases I don't understand can't be that important. i.e. people who use software different than the way I designed are wrong.
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