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> No, that’s typical software development.

Software that controls multi-thousand pound machines at 70+mph isn't typical, and typical practices don't necessarily apply.

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Yes, those practices absolutely shouldn't apply for self driving cars. Good luck regression testing how a system change impacts the AI handling of every edge case of traffic.

Waymo does this. Their infrastructure costs would be astronomical though if not attached to a company with its own cloud

It seems like the test suites for these deep learning based models are themselves almost comprehensive knowledge bases from which you could build a more traditional control software.

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