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Re:The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the ... by nullc on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:06AM (#24315036)
> errors will stem from design flaws, not from bit-flip errors, which seems a defensible assumption to me.

Unless the manufacturer decides that automotive grade parts are overpriced and low performance for the price and starts deploying non-automotive/non-industrial grade parts.

Fortunately no reputable automaker would do something like that as they'd surely face dire consequences in the market if they did.

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Re:The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the ... by throwaway0a5e on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:45AM (#24316437)
Automotive grade is consumer grade. There's standards for some things but they're standards of convenience so that an engineer from GM can call up Bosch and just reference a standard rather than spec it out in detail. Some safety critical things and the overall performance of some systems have standards that need to be met per law but there is no special "automotive grade" for pretty much anything that goes into a car.
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Re:The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the ... by nullc on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:47AM (#24329821)
Most parts I've seen marked as automotive grade have a radically wider temperature range.
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