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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure I follow your point here.

    I would have thought this was straightforward enough…

    You speak as if there’s never been any recalls of cars in the past, before they had electronic and computer systems in them.

    Your whole comment that I replied to was about faults in advanced/electronic systems as the reasons that make cars unsafe to drive.

    Now people are advocating adding unnecessary parts

    “Unnecessary” is in the eye of the beholder.

    They were very few parts needed to actually make an automobile go into motion and be steerable, but there’s many additional bells and whistles that people considered necessary for them when they purchase a vehicle.

    • limelight79@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The reason I didn’t understand your comment is that your examples just proved my point - safety critical items WERE NOT VETTED correctly. What makes you think the auto manufacturers are being careful with software? They aren’t, or are doing the bare minimum. I listed multiple software issues with various manufacturer that never should have happened.

      Look, I’m not a luddite. I like having nav and satellite radio and all of that. But adding a game to the already questionable software development in a car is insane. Cars are a safety critical item and everything added to them should be carefully considered and thoroughly vetted.

      Someone compared it to a cell phone, but cell phones aren’t 3,000 lbs of heavy machinery barreling down a highway at 70 mph. A phone needing to reset or whatever is a minor inconvenience compared to what could go wrong with a serious software bug in a car. I’m not sure why people would argue against this, it seems self-evident. I provided examples.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What makes you think the auto manufacturers are being careful with software? They aren’t, or are doing the bare minimum.

        What, you’re expecting the car to explode if somebody plays a Netflix movie or video game while waiting for someone to come out of the store?

        And again, if I wanted to, I can make the same argument you just did (carefulness) about the hydraulics that hold the rear hatch door up, or the tires that were on my SUV.