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I have reason to believe that a competent hobbyist programmer is less dangerous than the electronic engineer, pretend-to-be-programmers who wrote the original f
by sparkie 9y ago
I have reason to believe that a competent hobbyist programmer is less dangerous than the electronic engineer, pretend-to-be-programmers who wrote the original firmware on the vehicle.
Based on years of working with electronic engineers' code. (Apologies to those of you who are competent in both)
- bo1024 9y agoI appreciate your point and am inclined to agree. But my agreement doesn't matter. Your point is only one starting point for a challenging and nuanced discussion over the legality and safety of people installing their own software on their own cars. My broader point is that this (among others) is a discussion we should already be having and eventually must have -- if not amongst "ourselves", then with legislators and laypeople. Yet the state of software security, awareness, and incentives is such that it could be years or a decade until we do...