Ok first,I’m impressed someone is monetising their HN comments. But this entire argument is ridiculous, Comma AI’s transparency isn’t a positive compared to tra

Ok first,I’m impressed someone is monetising their HN comments. But this entire argument is ridiculous, Comma AI’s transparency isn’t a positive compared to traditional car companies. Traditional car companies aren’t transparent because the expectations of a customer is “I buy the product and it works”. Transparency isn’t a substitute for well designed and tested products. Comma AI has a massive advantage over car companies- they have no intention of following industry standard design procedures to ensure they don’t kill people- instead they sell their software with a sticker saying “if you kill someone you don’t know us”. I won’t be derisive as this author claims I would be, I’ll be serious. I’ve worked on autonomous driving solutions with traditional car companies, they move slower because BMW means something and they know it’ll mean death if they fuck up. Comma AI haven’t learned from the industry they’re trying to replace. This is the continual edge that Silicon Valley has over the rest of the world - they’re happy to just use legal arbitrage to gain an advantage and then pivot once their advantage is entrenched. It’s thus ridiculous “how were we supposed to know this would happen” excuse that’s trotted out all the time that’s absolute self serving bullshit.