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I will get excited about a self-driving car on the day that an auto manufacturer fully opens up details about their development process - size of team, experien
by otakucode 9y ago
I will get excited about a self-driving car on the day that an auto manufacturer fully opens up details about their development process - size of team, experience levels of team, breakdown of salaries, tools they used, methodologies used, etc. I also want a PERSONAL statement from every single engineer who worked on the project saying that they take personal responsibility for the safety of the vehicle and that every single one of their own concerns about safety or foreshortened schedules or testing were addressed to their full satisfaction.
I also want to see the CEO, CTO, and other C-level execs of the auto company to release a legally binding agreement holding themselves personally liable for criminal negligence if the vehicle is later found to have obvious flaws - obvious determined by an independent group of several thousand unaffiliated volunteer experienced software engineers.
Right now, if a car company slapped a 'self driving' car together that was designed to seek and destroy pre-schoolers, no one would say boo. Certainly not the courts. Toyota killed people by having ludicrously egregiously bad development practices (their developers did not even have access to a bug tracker... they followed 6 of 94 industry standard recommended practices... and worse) - and the courts acquitted them of negligence. That is disgusting, and makes it impossible for any reasonable person to trust any auto company doing development of something as significant and difficult as making a self-driving car.
They know that they will not be held liable no matter how bad of a job they do - would you drive across a bridge built by bridge engineers hired, managed, and made to work the way software engineers are hired, managed, and made to work in modern companies?