In a video documenting his experience, Entrepreneur Thomas Remo picked up his £64815.22 ($82,000) electric vehicle (EV) in Irvine, California. Remo’s excitement turned sour when the truck “broke not even six inches off the lot” and “failed another 30 times” throughout the first day.
Yeah, but not in fucking Cessnas (or other small general-aviation aircraft)! Having it be used in commercial airliners (i.e. public transit) with FAA oversight is very, very different than having it be used in owner-operated automobiles with fuck-all oversight of anything except emissions.
When Tesla gets a reaming from the government of the same intensity Boeing is getting (and has their systems tested and certified by the government with the same amount of rigor that aircraft are certified) then maybe I’ll support the tech being used in buses. But even at that point I still wouldn’t tolerate it in my privately-owned car, unless maybe it was Free Software or I designed the damn thing myself.
Small GA aircraft don’t use FBW systems because of weight, they do however use hybrid systems that don’t weigh as much. I have a lot of faith in engineers doing their job…that being said I have little faith the C-suites that run the show. In all honesty with the level of automated driving tech drive by wire is the least scary thing to me.
As a software engineer, I don’t own any car made after 2008 (in part) because I don’t trust the programming in modern cars. My objection is more about what the developers programmed on purpose – e.g. this – than bugs they may have introduced by mistake, but still, I’m not really a fan of any computerized nanny functions that are more complicated than ABS.
On a related note, this XKCD applies to more than just voting software.