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> So are big corporations going to do kind of a careless job testing live vehicles in a rush to market? Yes. Will people get hurt? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes.

There is a big difference between humans killing others as one off incidents vs one bug, defect or security flaw making a crash possible with the whole fleet. It can be far more catastrophic.

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I'm actually far more afraid of a security flaw than a defect. Security flaws could be deliberately exploited by terrorists or other bad actors. That's a really serious concern.

On the other hand, that's the kind of thing that gets addressed by brute-force improvement. Security is a well-understood field, and the main problems we've seen with car security so far have been caused by insufficient effort, not insufficient technology.

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