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So it's the car companies fault if I crash my car? They should limit vehicle speed to 5mph so I don't hurt myself or others. I have used many of these routers

• solarkraft 5y ago
  Lackluster comparison (a modern consumer router should be more like a self steering car), but modern cars indeed have safety features to prevent you from crashing. Of course, both with the car and the router there are good arguments that you should be able to do the dumb thing if you know you need it. If it has to be explicitly enabled after intense warnings, the protective duty (as someone knowing better) can possibly be considered fulfilled - or you can still argue that it should be especially hard to do to block out people who don’t listen to warnings.
• Johnny555 5y ago
  Do you want to require that router users pass a government proficiency test and carry insurance to cover their liability for unsafe network use? Otherwise the analogy with driving a car is not quite complete.
• sophacles 5y ago
  You are making a very good point: the order of gear shifting was tightly regulated after a lot of accidents caused by NDLR order (instead of the now-standard PRNDL). In fact most automotive interfaces have regulations to standardize them after enough accidents were caused by people getting new cars that had different interfaces.
• kube-system 5y ago
  My car will literally hit the brakes for me if I am about to crash into something. A router marketed to a non-professional should do the same.