• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    The kind of quality assurance you’re talking about is astronomically expensive. Software has gotten a lot more complex over the past couple decades. And just because it came on physical media and could not easily be patched doesn’t mean that it didn’t have bugs. Far from it.

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      11 hours ago

      The kind of quality assurance you’re talking about is astronomically expensive

      That might be a valid argument when talking about accounting software with backups in case of fuck ups. We’re talking about cars, on roads, with people sprinkled all around.

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        7 hours ago

        I would suggest against self driving cars for this very reason. The kind of thing in the article is not a hazard while driving.