Complete badasses and well done! And good on persuading the judge to hand down a more appropriate sentence.
At least part of the problem here is American prudery. If society could just accept that everyone has a nude body and it’s not something to be ashamed of, the victims wouldn’t be so traumatized.
Simple common sense suggests that rented (subscribed) software of any kind is likely a very bad deal for the consumer. Rental where all the control rests with the publisher and not the user or creator (a la Steam) is just as bad.
Before big publishers emerged, we had exactly the try-before-you-buy situation you describe. It was called shareware. It had excellent quality control since any game that didn’t hold the player’s attention didn’t generate income. And the creator got all the revenue rather than the publisher and distributors keeping 80-90% or more.
These days, I just settle for waiting until a game appears on GOG. It’s a decent compromise.
Since @desalline sounds resistant to merging this code, it would still be useful to have it run client-side is possible.
Thanks for this. It sounds promising.
Can it be done? Theoretically yes. Should it be done? Probably no.
Agreed. I’m just not sure how regulators justify allowing software that claims to be beta to operate a vehicle autonomously.
Oh, I completely agree on all points. None of them are ready for full autopilot.
Corporations can’t commit crimes because they are just legal entities.
The US Supreme Court begs to differ:
The list goes on.
[M]any things that you think are crimes (dumping waste, not paying employees, stiffing suppliers, accidents) are not crimes.
Again, the US federal and state governments would like a word. There's not a locale in the country that considers theft and intentional illegal pollution not to be criminal acts with fines and, for natural person, imprisonment as punishments. However, you are correct that accidents are generally not considered crimes, although penalties may still apply if they were the result of carelessness or neglect.
While I personally agree, under US shareholder-primacy laws, this would likely be impossible in the current era.
I agree. However, I also acknowledge that with the US's legal fiction that "Corporations are people," it's unlikely that any CEO will ever be held personally responsible for anything except failing to make enough profit for greedy moneygrubbers.
Who the hell thinks beta software is appropriate for real-world applications in something as dangerous as vehicle control at highway speeds?
I've come to believe that all Teslas should be recalled until they get their act together. They're getting people hurt and killed by field testing their experiments on roadways that we paid for.
A cell phone is not a motor vehicle.