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This is how NASA writes software:
fastcompany.com/28121/they-wri

I want the software driving cars around my family to be held to the a similar standard of quality. In the context of self-driving cars, "Move fast and break things" means "Half-arse it and kill people."

Humans in the USA manage 1.16 fatalities per 100,000,000 miles travelled. Uber's software couldn't even get to 3 million miles before it killed someone.

We do this properly, or not at all.

@ifixcoinops

> We do this properly, or not at all.

an admirable sentiment, but since feckless megacorporations are in charge now and our nominal systems of governance have largely abandoned all but the hollow pretense of exercising restraint over their actions, we probably just do whatever they decide we're going to do.