(04-01-2018, 09:01 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-01-2018, 07:30 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:
From your link:


If Tesla's software can be changed remotely, what stops a hacker terrorist from rewriting the Tesla fleet to (say) mow down pedestrians?

I don't think we can make life fool proof, but we can make it better. I put equal trust in the development of predictive security technologies and human competence behind the wheel, which is not much since I'm a skeptic by nature. Neither will be perfect ever, but machines will eventually be better than people by wide margins.

Its not whether the widget machine can produce widgets faster than a human. This is complex programing, and anyone who has spent any amount of time program knows that debugging even simple things can be a nightmare, much less something as complex as a self driving car with many 'run-away trolley' type choices.

Think of it this way. I knew a girl who was a complete ditz as a driver in highschool. She crashed her car three times over the last 2.5 years of highschool (and this was presmart phone/texting so that wasn't it). Compare that to my android/computer software crashes and freezes. I can't tell exactly how many times its happened in the last 2.5 years, but its way more than 3.

And unlike that ditzy girl, computer programs don't get better about crashing over time, they get much much worse. So much so, that people suggest that you have to wipe windows clean every couple of years if you want it to run reliably. Or they say not to update your iphones more than 3 times, because they basically become unable to run. How is it that everyone knows this about every smart phone/computer they have, and yet they expect cars running some version of 'autopilot' being made by companies that have far smaller software departments than microsoft or apple to do better?

OTA updates make a tesla better? Yeah right! The cars functions will go slower and slower and start glitching and crashing more often. This is what technology does!

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