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Frankly, I find this terrifying. So, I'm hurtling down the highway in a sheet metal box travelling faster than the fastest land animal, controlled by hundreds
by mcantor 17y ago
Frankly, I find this terrifying. So, I'm hurtling down the highway in a sheet metal box travelling faster than the fastest land animal, controlled by hundreds of millions of lines of code, and bugs in this code could erroneously stall my car or trigger my airbags? That's too much. It's too much code. More code means more bugs, and now more bugs means more danger. I'll gladly trade in my GPS for a car that could still drive even after being hit with an EMP. (Not that I run into electromagnetic pulses regularly... I just trust the mechanical stuff more than I do the code.)
- CrLf 17y agoMillions of lines is an exaggeration... You can't add up the code for the ABS to the code for engine control, to the car navigation system. Those systems may share information, through limited signals or simple data busses, but they are separate, not a big code blob like a PC or a server.