[donkeyd]

>I find it truly remarkable how on the one hand HN can rage for days over Boeing introducing software with flaws that killed people and on the other hand when it's Tesla's software flaws killing people in a similarly repeatable manner

In the Boeing, the pilots were aware and trying to mitigate the problems, but the system prevented that and ended up crashing the plane.

If the Tesla kept accelerating and steered straight into the truck, after the driver disengaged autopilot because he saw the truck, this would be a fair comparison. We don't know whether that happened, but it seems highly unlikely.

[notahacker]

Sure, the two are not exactly the same, as the MAXes appear to have crashed because some pilots weren't trained/knowledgeable enough to understand how to address a software malfunction, whereas the Teslas appear to have crashed because some drivers weren't trained/skilful enough to react quickly enough to a software malfunction.

I'm not convinced that distinction makes a tendency to accelerate into static objects a comparatively acceptable teething problem for the autopilot software though, even less so for people who support Tesla's stated aim of full autonomy asap...