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Yeap. And if one of them hits you, they are liable. How many software developers want to be held criminally responsible for deaths? Some times we get so fascin
by pm24601 10y ago
Yeap. And if one of them hits you, they are liable. How many software developers want to be held criminally responsible for deaths?
Some times we get so fascinated by technology, that we forget that the technology has to fit within human society.
Remember the whole concept of product/market fit - if the market rejects the product: it doesn't matter how "cool" the technology is.
- GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago>How many software developers want to be held criminally responsible for deaths? Nope. Short of gross negligence in design, that seldom happens in any engineering field. How many people were criminally charged in the Challenger disaster? None.
- pm24601 10y ago7 people died in the challenger disaster. 30,000 people die each year in car related fatalities. Completely different order of magnitude. Additionally, going up on a rocket is a fundamentally risking proposition done by adults. Having a driverless vehicle that glitches, applies power instead of brakes, and kills a bunch of pretty young girls.... well that makes the 5 oclock news and 11 oclock for many, many days. People get charged with crimes.
- GrumpyYoungMan 10y agoHow many criminal charges were filed against individual engineers for any those 30,000 fatalities last year? How many were convicted? None and none. You're illustrating my point for me quite nicely. Frankly, I can't think of a criminal conviction, even at the corporate level, for design flaws in the auto industry without going all the way back to the Ford Pinto.