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Ye it is a bad idea. I mean, I've worked in the auto industry as a ECU programmer and multiple times during uncommitted code development I made self acceleration bugs. It is really easy to mess up.

And steering going full left kills you in ways the brakes and gas can't.

After I left I heard that they removed the key as kill switch too for some stupid reason.




It makes for an easy horror movie plot: car gets hacked or a sensor gets confused, and kills the occupants who can't override the Airbus-like automation lacking "direct law" or anything resembling a manual backup.


Ye. Like trying to do a hard reboot on a MacBook Air, but at 70 mph and going faster ...

Or a hacker setting steeringWheelGain_S16 to 0 and turn full left.




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