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by pdkl95 3744 days ago
> The car industry has a lot to learn about security.

Not only security; with GPS and radio having access to the breaks, the car industry has a lot to learn about safety.

The entire industry that allowed this kind of terrible design needs to study the lessons of the Therac-25. Nobody seems to understand what "fail safe" means anymore.

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And yet cars have got both dramatically safer and much harder to steal