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You do not want root on your self driving car.

Or to put it differently, I don't want to be driving on the same road as you with your rooted self driving car. You can be great sysadmin/coder, tesla guys may be too, but both of you changing random stuff without any communication with each other.. I've seen enough servers.




I am trying to imagine the typical arch Linux enthusiasts modifying the lane detection software on their cars and shudder at the thought.


This is a problem that will very quickly fix itself, as morbid as it sounds...


It's one thing to remove the warning stickers from a gas-fire oven, its another when you're commanding several thousand pounds of unintentional killing machine.

Keep your rooting to your phones.


All I want in a modern car is to have nothing smart in it that I'd _need_ (or, want) to root...




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