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revnode | 5 months ago

The point of engineering is to make something that’s economically viable, not to slap together something that works. Making something that works is easy, making something that works and can be sold at scale is hard.

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uoaei|5 months ago

That's not engineering, that's industry. It's important to distinguish the two.

revnode|5 months ago

Engineering only exists within industry. Everything else is a hobby.

waldarbeiter|5 months ago

If it would be easy there would already be a car costing a few million that few can afford but that has solved AD. But there isn't.

revnode|5 months ago

There is no market for such a thing. At that price point, you get a personal chauffeur. That’s what rich people do and he can do stuff that a self driving system never can.