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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • The driver is always responsible for using the tools within the car correctly and maintaining control of the vehicle at all times.

    Either way the driver would be at fault. However, the driver might be able to make a (completely separate) case that the car’s defects made control impossible, but since the driver always had the option to disable self-driving, I doubt that would go anywhere.

    Just like you don’t get off the hook if your cruise control causes an accident… and it doesn’t matter how much Tesla lied about what it may or may not be capable of, because at the end of the day it’s always the driver’s responsibility to know the limitations of the vehicle and disable the feature and take control when necessary.








  • Sounds like the heuristic is taking multiple samples only uses them if they are within some consistency threshold, to hedge against the cases where the field has random data.

    The reason it only fails rarely and randomly is because it only happens when multiple actually random timestamps happen to line up around the same time.

    Sort of like how several applications (cough git cough) have failure modes when two different files happen to have the same hash.

    Turns out developers are bad at statistics and probabilities and don’t understand the birthday paradox.


  • Except this article is completely incorrect and doesn’t even acknowledge the actual ruling responsible for this popular belief:

    In 1919 the primacy of shareholder value maximization was affirmed in a ruling by the Michigan State Supreme Court in Dodge vs. Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford wanted to invest Ford Motor Company’s considerable retained earnings in the company rather than distribute it to shareholders. The Dodge brothers, minority shareholders in Ford Motor Company, brought suit against Ford, alleging that his intention to benefit employees and consumers was at the expense of shareholders. In their ruling, the Michigan court agreed with the Dodge brothers: