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by bobkazamakis 1237 days ago
this is the exact kind of bullshit that corporations have gotten away with for too long. As a consumer, I do not give one flying fuck what the new hip-slang for computer vision is, call it "put your life in the hands of a company run by the most burned out divorced dad person of the year".
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redox99 1237 days ago
Finding out which system it was using is pretty much the first step of any kind of investigation, which this is.

As a consumer you probably would want to know if this is caused by the autopilot that you are using and have been using for years, or if it's the beta FSD that you have to opt in.

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yreg 1237 days ago
One claim is completely different than the other one and the truth is important here.
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boucher 1237 days ago
Not really. In this scenario there's no functional difference between these two supposedly distinct products.
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yreg 1237 days ago
They are two different products with two different tech stacks.
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lovich 1237 days ago
having "self driving" in the name is probably the cause of the confusion. As far as non technical people are concerned, tesla soft ware for driving the car engaged. Whether it was one product or another is immaterial to the fact that tesla software caused the crash
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yreg 1236 days ago
>As far as non technical people are concerned

But this is hacker news so for us, here, the distinction is important.

Which is what this whole absurd subthread is about. Redox pointed out that the article attributes the issue to the wrong product and you all are saying that it doesn't matter.

Well perhaps you are not interested in the topic and it doesn't matter for you. For me it matters.

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Imagine an article about a Google Chat issue was posted on hacker news. Redox99 points out that the issue is actually in Google Meet. And then you, bob and boucher appear and you reply that it doesn't matter which one it is, both are google chat apps. Well I believe it matters a lot.

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lovich 1235 days ago
The sub thread you replied to started with the poster literally saying “as a consumer…”. It was not a discussion of the technical minutiae, but of the overall situation
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