This is a stunt by Green Hills Software, a maker of embedded operating systems and programming tools. You might be interested to know that they initiated a public relations campaign decrying the use of Linux as insecure:<p><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/83242/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/83242/</a><p>Here's an article by the very same Dan O’Dowd: "Linux: unfit for national security?"
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040912190752/http://www.ghs.com/news/eet4817_final2.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20040912190752/http://www.ghs.co...</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040916074333/https://www.ghs.com/linux/unfit.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20040916074333/https://www.ghs.c...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hills_Software" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hills_Software</a>
Dumb stunt-<p><i>has a critical safety malfunction on average every 8 minutes;<p>has been on the market for at least 6 months;<p>has never been recalled.</i><p>Have they tried Ford's self driving system on the Mach-E, and see how it auto-disengages when a highway curved more than what the system can handle? Would that count as a critical safety malfunction?<p>I'd never use FSD in its current state, but FSD had plenty of recalls by way of version rollbacks.
Some context:<p><a href="https://dawnproject.com/full-self-driving-cars-software-at-its-most-dangerous/" rel="nofollow">https://dawnproject.com/full-self-driving-cars-software-at-i...</a>
If this meets their condition of being from a Fortune 500 company (?) then their non-responding website is eligible to win. I wonder what OS they use to host it.
These people's reading comprehension is atrocious.<p>Tesla's FSD does not exist yet. A beta product is not the same as a product. Yes one can pre-pay for the product and get some features now, but actual FSD is simply not here yet. By "actual FSD" I mean something that is non-beta and actually does full self driving, in case that needs to be spelled out. Boy.
Look at those "Additional Rules" including:<p><pre><code> * You may only use contest hashtags with Tweets relevant to the hashtag topic.</code></pre>