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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by ClumsyPilot on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:20PM (#26072244)
This is also similar to how Toyota hilled people with control software that would cause car to accelerate randomly. The software audit team concluded that they could not find the bug, but the code was totally unreadable and terrible. They settled.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/business/toyota-agrees-to....

Also let's remember that a company in UK was selling fake bomb detectors to Israeli and other militaries, and it took them more than 10 years to notice!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29459896

There needs to be proper scrutiny into these things, I could start some random 'deep learning to find criminals' company tomorrow, and have less regulation than a car mechanic

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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by abandonliberty on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:38PM (#26073259)
Every attempt to replicate this has failed, and other vehicle manufacturers have just as many 'sudden acceleration events'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration

Occam's razer points to people just hitting the wrong pedal or people's floor mats getting stuck.

The reason Toyota ate it in the press for this was competitive.

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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by appleflaxen on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:47PM (#26081123)
> The reason Toyota ate it in the press for this was competitive.

can you explain what you mean? I don't understand this sentence.

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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by roryokane on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:25PM (#26085429)
I think they mean this: Toyota “ate it” (an idiom meaning to take losses) in the press by having bad stories written about them. These stories were written for a reason. This reason was not that Toyota deserving those stories, but that Toyota’s competition encouraged those stories.
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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by azernik on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:56PM (#26073345)
From what I've seen of the Toyota case, the thing that Toyota actually got slammed on had nothing to do with control software, but was about the mechanical design of the pedals and the floor mats.
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