Meet 66 year old tech entrepeneur Dan O'Dowd, who is the founder and CEO of Green Hills, a company building embedded RTOS stuff for the military. O’Dowd’s view that software should be developed methodically, ensuring it’s fully secure before releasing it, is a stark contrast to the “move fast and break things” like Tesla.
"Everybody thinks I’m exaggerating, but I have literally never seen a worse program in my life." O'Dowd says.
Dowd's hobby is filming Teslas in full self driving mode in order to get this off the street. So Dowd created this video of Teslas in full self driving mode (he says), where all Teslas are heavily crashing into child sized crash test dummys on the street at full speed.
Tesla sent a cease and desist letter to Dowd in response to his child mannequin test, which doesn't impress Dowd much. He will just continue his campaign against Tesla's FSD, which he considers as garbage software and danger to the public.
To quote Dowd: "If Tesla gets away with this and ships this product and I can’t convince the public that a self-driving car that drives like a drunken, suicidal 13-year-old shouldn’t be on the road, I’m going to fail." Elon Musk on the other hand says that FSD is already saving lots of lifes, and keeping it off public roads would be "morally wrong."
Also professional testers are questioning Dowd's testing methods. This does not prevent from O'Dowd launching ads on TV and newspapers for his self set task. O’Dowd said he wants to do the tests again, this time with media, regulators, Tesla supporters and even Musk himself in attendance, so he can erase whatever lingering doubts there may be about his methods.
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