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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by jorvi on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:29PM (#36182145)
> in the same sense that using any modern computer technology which has software in it’s stack, which hasn’t been formally verified, is fundamentally unsafe.

If an IDE on your laptop malfunctions, you end up with a crash or some malformed data.

If self-driving fails, you end up barreling down the road in a 2 tonne deathbox, likely killing you or someone else.

Not equivalent in the slightest.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by belltaco on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:26PM (#36182471)
Yet that is what humans are allowed to do every day and kill people.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by infoseek12 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:24AM (#36183088)
Software powers more than just your IDE, even cars that don’t drive themselves depend on computer code. So it is in fact exactly equivalent.
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by ClumsyPilot on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:45AM (#36184079)
Do you think average website and an aircraft autopilot are written in the same programming language and to the same level of quality?
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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by infoseek12 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:06PM (#36190407)
No, I think code like what is used to for Tesla’s Autopilot is written to a much higher quality and highly tested. That is in fact my entire point.
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