XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/18/2025 1:22 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > Paul S Person  writes:   
   >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:54:48 -0700, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
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   >>>   
   >>> On 10/17/25 05:47, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>> When somebody runs over a pedestrian it doesn't even make the =   
   >> newspaper in   
   >>>> a big city.  It might make page three of the weekly paper here in =   
   >> rural   
   >>>> Virginia, along with the article about the high schooler who got a =   
   >> scholarship   
   >>>> to Yale and the new hotdog shop opening.   
   >>>   
   >>> 	These days you are lucky to have a Newspaper in a major conurbation.   
   >>> 	The accidents are frequently covered on TV in San Francisco and=20   
   >>> sometimes the   
   >>> SF Chronicle will give the accident and susequent problems space=20   
   >>> especially if the   
   >>> term "DUI" comes up.  The incidents covered involving the driverless=20   
   >>> vehicles show   
   >>> that people are interferring with vehicles more often than vehicles are=20   
   >>> interfering   
   >>> with people. Auto-navigating Cars have not been designed to deal wit=20   
   >>> anti-car   
   >>> protesters.   
   >>   
   >> An excellent illustration of the failure of programmers to consider   
   >> all the possibilities.   
   >   
   > Care to elaborate on that?   The universe of possibilities is infinite.   
   >   
      
   Exactly. There's a world of difference between protecting against   
   accidental conditions, and protecting against deliberate, planned   
   attacks.   
      
   If you spray painted the cameras and lidars of a driverless car,   
   it will fail.   
      
   But a manned car will also fail if the spray paint the windshield.   
      
   pt   
      
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