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Re:Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors by mhh__ on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:03PM (#25723344)
Absolutely true, although the corporate liability thing really depends on whether the engineering takes after software or aviation (to pick two widely contrasting examples).
Re:Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors by bigiain on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:24PM (#25723543)
And I notice the "phone with wheels" built by mostly software engineers chooses to use words with well known meanings from the aviation industry without a) any of the rigour behind the regulations and certifications or b) much in the way of acknowledging the differences between the challenges of an "autopilot" safely managing to traverse the airspace 37,000 feet above Hawaii, compared to a rural lane in the UK (or 280 between the valley and the city).

(While, sadly, at the same time it seems from the outside that the ACAS code got written by the same outsourced dev team that work on their website the rest of the time. :sigh: )