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My concern is if the engineers were qualified and allowed to follow proper protocol for designing safety critical systems.

• bob1029 5y ago
  Also consider the budgets these engineers have to work with now. If cars had an average unit cost measured in 7-9 figures (i.e. like a Boeing 777), I would have substantially more trust in everything involved.
  • seized 5y ago
    Yeah, Boeing is a solid example of that whole large budget == safe mentality.... Maybe in 2022 exclusively.
  • therealcamino 5y ago
    There's not a simple relationship between cost of the end product and the budget for developing safety-critical systems. There are only ~1600 777s ever built. The development costs for automotive systems are amortized over millions of units. I have no idea what the budgets actually are, and it's fine if you don't trust certain kinds of automation in cars. In fact my 2020 Toyota with lane-keeping assistance tried to drive me off the freeway at 80mph three times last week. (I probably should have stopped trying it after the second time, but I was kind of morbidly fascinated at that point. As it steered me firmly towards the grassy median, it also started beeping urgently to tell me that it wasn't a good idea.)
  • userbinator 5y ago
    All that cost, and they still screwed up with the 737MAX...