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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by denton-scratch on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:44AM (#29430549)
The manufacturer must carry out comprehensive safety testing of their automobiles before putting them into production - that's how other safety-critical tech is deployed.

That is: their test results should be providing them with all the feedback they need. We're not talking about a broken UI on a shopping website. Broken "smarts" in a car is like broken brakes; it's not OK to just wait for users to find out for you.

If they "did the wrong thing" with car safety, then they shoun't be allowed to sell cars until the problem is fixed.

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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by kelnos on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:55PM (#29434502)
And yet here we are. I agree with you that such things shouldn't be allowed out into the wild until they are perfect (or at least meet some reasonable standard), but it appears to that it does happen.

You can either stick your fingers in your ears and keep yelling "this can't happen!", or acknowledge that it does and try to do something about it.

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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by oneplane on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:13PM (#29433953)
Designing, testing and QA can be seen as forms of internal feedback but I was writing about external feedback in response to a suggestion that external feedback is wrong to give.
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