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ELC: Google learns to drive

ELC: Google learns to drive

Posted Feb 22, 2013 10:15 UTC (Fri) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
In reply to: ELC: Google learns to drive by felixfix
Parent article: ELC: Google learns to drive

I'd like more open source personnally, but for a different reason: spot the vulnerabilities in that code before the cars are released.
(And no, a solid core of paid full-time programmers swearing with right hand raised that their code is secure will not convince me more than a bunch of hardcore open-source hackers grep-ing through it. Maybe I've been burnt too many times now.)


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open sourcing of Google self-driving car code

Posted Feb 23, 2013 0:38 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I rather doubt legions of people would spend time reviewing code, without compensation, that they can't run themselves. It sounds really boring and unrewarding. Where open source benefits from the many eyes, it's because legions of people already know and use the code for other reasons - they work on it themselves. At the very least, they use it.

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