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A heartwarming story, but the thought that someone is now driving around in a modded car with a self-driving system installed by someone whose experience with t
by t_mann 4y ago
A heartwarming story, but the thought that someone is now driving around in a modded car with a self-driving system installed by someone whose experience with the command line amounts to a few (half-completed?) online ML courses and who had never done hardware modifications before does make me feel uneasy.
Really not trying to be dismissive here, and I realize it was only the setup not writing the full software, but there's probably still a zillion things that could be missing / go wrong if you don't really know what you're doing (which is the case if you need a tutorial and help from Discord at every other step, let's be honest). "Failing forward" may work for consumer-facing web startups where nothing really sensitive is on the line, but if your software can physically accelerate two tons of metal to 100mph, it's a bit of a different game.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoIf that's a real risk then our solution to it can't be individual programmers self-policing their own competence.
- t_mann 4y agoThe risk is very real if that guy is driving around on public streets with this system. There are lots of regulations regarding road safety, but at no point in the article did that guy mention anything about them, what steps he took to ensure compliance, whether the solution was indepently audited afterwards... Laws are only as good as they're enforced, that's why it's important to call out questionable tinkering when you see it happening in the wild.