[austincheney]

> The chance of a kitchen appliance endangering a human is much lower than a car going haywire or a doctor making a mistake due to inadequate training.

The chance of any device on the internet of things leaking your personal habits online is not low. Furthermore, the risk of death or injury from electrical devices is only due to regulation upon such devices before commercial software was ever imagined. I would also say the hiring and performance of truck drivers is far more regulated than the firmware developers who write the code that powers that very truck.

> the software that runs inside your vehicle is nothing like the software powering our favorite websites.

So website software doesn't need to be written by competent people with regard for your privacy or security? Is insecure online software not harmful? Are credit card data breaches not harmful?

[Cyph0n]

> Is insecure online software not harmful? Are credit card data breaches not harmful?

Harmful, yes. Life threatening, no. There is a world of difference between losing a kidney due to incompetence vs. losing money.

[austincheney]

So lawyers shouldn't have to be licensed or certified? They cannot take a kidney from you. Neither can truck drivers, real estate agents, or police officers.