Tesla whistleblower casts doubt on car safety

I have worked in SW for the automotive industry for 10 years. The amount of times we where stopped from implementing features or had to roll them back and the number of delays because a test showed a decrease in safety was frustrating but I do feel safe driving my daughter around in the cars I worked on because off it. With the cybertruck, just the transition to 48V electrical system means ALL electronic components had to re-engineered, and for an established manufacturer this would mean huge costs and time to retest everything.

It’s a car, so it’s not perfectly safe when users do not follow safe driving instructions. No surprise there.<p>Like any car, drivers have to keep their hands on the wheel and their attention on the road situation, and stay in control at all times.<p>Until FSD is not in beta, there’s no use pointing out that a bad driver can do bad things because that is true in any car.<p>Saying the system is not ready may be true, but it’s not anything we don’t already know.<p>If the point is that some drivers need better education, then sure, this is definitely a special case of that and worthy of close attention.