The numbers are based on nothing more than whatever the anti-piracy goons feel like putting out. It comes with the support of Voltage who sees notice and notice as a way to send out their demand letters for free and not face the Canadian court system which has held up their litigation and placed appropriate restrictions on the information.
I know it's false because I would never enter a contest for such a trip so I would have 0% chance of winning. Just like I know that the details of an incident are never reflected in the generalized statistics of such an incident.
Well if it is based on fatalities, then:
Accident rate in general: 4-5%
Accident rate so far with only 48 vehicles: 0%
It's based on accidents overall for which fatalities are a miniscule % (around 0.006)
Without more details, you have no basis to assume the claim of "someone else's" fault is false.
Yes I do, for the same reason I assume the person on the phone who tells me I won a trip to the Bahamas is false. I believe things when I can see the details for myself and not simply going on faith.
As stated, it's based on publicly available data from Statistics Canada. ~2000 fatalities for 32 million vehicles over the course of a year.
Given your assertion, which I do agree with to an extent, what about non-injury causing accidents like those described in the article? Are those merely an annoyance? That lost resume could cost you a job that could have made you $100k/year and that small accident could ding a Bugatti Veyron.
The difference between an ABS system failing and software glitch is very different. The former is likely mechanical a failure to manufacture a part properly or install it to specification. A software glitch is very difficult to prove and there's no defined parameters as to what constitutes a negligent failure. Liability for previously unknown defects is far less than known defects, it's hard for a judge or jury to wrap their head(s) around what software developers should or should not have known about a software failure.
16 is the first statistically significant sample size. 48 > 16.
That number is based on Canadian yearly accident rates with 32 million registered vehicles and, obviously, a variety of driving patterns.
Click-wrap agreements have been upheld by North American courts.
Accident rate in general: 4-5%
Accident rate so far with only 48 vehicles: 8-9%
Without details I'm not going to accept "someone else's" fault as fact.
They've managed it with software on your devices, what makes your car different than any other device?
Self-driving cars need to be banned.
Why - it wasn't their fault?
Until it is, then we have semi-autonomous machines injuring/killing humans with no one to hold accountable because the ToS absolves the company of liability.
Would you consider the government following each and every courier you sent out to see who you were talking to a violation of your privacy in the 1780s?
No, that one's far simpler than the issues at hand. The government has always had the power to observe behavior in public without a warrant.
Ever heard of "Private in public" doctrine? Or has the US lost that part of privacy rights?
Hiring older developers is the fastest way to put hundreds of security holes in your software. That's reality, people. They just simply don't keep up and don't have modern college training in the latest security threats and program hacking methods.
Modern college training? You mean the canned courses sold by course farms that are a decade old and full of errors?
The terrorists did less damage to our way of life than this kind of government spying on its own citizens.
Yup. Terrorism between 1970-2007: 1 in 3,500,00 chance of being killed by a terrorist. In 2007 alone you had a 1 in 22,000 chance of being murdered in the US.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
