[jfim]

> How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance?

That sounds more like the kind of situation where the software department said "we need to have a system that has X amount of storage" and the hardware department made the hardware for it, but there was some missing communication about endurance. It's likely not the same people writing the autopilot software.

That being said, I'm not a Tesla customer, and the way autopilot is deployed and marketed makes me very uneasy.

[friendzis]

Well it still speaks volumes about internal culture. Everyone on the team should know they are developing a safety-critical system/component. Yet, the Bob from software can write a sloppy spec and Alice from hardware can not care about the spec being sloppy. It is entirely baffling.

[hedberg10]

>Yet, the Bob from software can write a sloppy spec and Alice from hardware can not care about the spec being sloppy.

Ehhh, you have not been long in industry, have you? :)

And that's why you get everything in writing and doubly signed off from all parties involved. Even telling people directly, to their face, with witnesses, does not work. Checklists for the departments does however.