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You discover it the day you a person dies and your relevant data is not there. Next time it's no longer a "missed edge case".
by buran77 1y ago
You discover it the day you a person dies and your relevant data is not there. Next time it's no longer a "missed edge case".
- giancarlostoro 1y agoIn a perfect world where developers are omnipresent and all knowing sure? This isn't a perfect world. Heck, how do you account for the developer who coded it leaving the company, and now that code has been untouched for half a decade if not more, because nothing is seemingly wrong with the code, what then? Who realizes it needs to be changed? Nobody. The number of obscure bugs I find in legacy code that stump even the most experienced maintainers never ends.
- matthewdgreen 1y agoThere have been dozens of government investigations and lawsuits around Tesla crashes over the past decade (more likely hundreds or thousands, I'm just thinking of the ones that received significant national press and that I happened to notice.) In each of these cases, Tesla's data retention was questioned, sometimes by regulators and sometimes as a major legal question in the case. There is no way in 2025 that the retention process around crash data is some niche area of Tesla's code that the business leaders haven't thought about extremely carefully. This is like saying "maybe nobody has recently looked at the ad-selection mechanism at Google." That's just not plausible.