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This thread gives you a sense of how Autopilot is cobbled together as a Linux suite of processes. Hackers in the good sense (and also in the bad sense) can see a lot of what it’s doing, but $tsla has violated GPL license conditions and the benefits of crowdfixing are lost.
...now I was a Unix-kernel-writer-equivalent systems programmer 30 years ago, but much of the detail is beyond me. But I wouldn’t trust Autopilot to keep my car in a lane, much less change lanes on its own. Software written by a secretive company which regularly exaggerates ...
...specs and suppresses damaging information, whose controlling owner has leveraged himself such that a decline in stock price wipes him out? What could go wrong?
