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>I find it truly remarkable how on the one hand HN can rage for days over Boeing introducing software with flaws that killed people and on the other hand when it's Tesla's software flaws killing people in a similarly repeatable manner, the general consensus veers towards deaths from poor software implementation not mattering nearly as much as the potential of the technology...

Tesla is a virtuous startup. Boeing is an evil defense contractor. What do you expect.




They may or may not be evil, but Tesla is a defense contractor, too. https://dod.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article...:

”Tesla Industries Inc, New Castle, Delaware, has been awarded a maximum $17,056,347 firm-fixed-price contract for battery power supplies.”




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