On: Why That Autonomous Race Car Crashed Straight into a Wall

[mpoteat]

One issue is that MATLAB is a hilariously inappropriate tool for any real software engineering, including robotics. What's worse is that it's just powerful enough to empower your traditional PE to be dangerous.

[ebg13 → mpoteat]

MATLAB's Stateflow toolkit is actually excellent for robotics engineering. Without more information, that MATLAB declaration in the article could mean many things.

[rasz → mpoteat]

MATLAB is fantastic for prototyping.

[FartyMcFarter → rasz]

If people approach self-driving car development like any other development, prototypes can easily become the final product.