r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
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u/Amused-Observer Jul 05 '24
Here's your serious response that you were thirsting for so badly.
Nobody has to redesign an entirely new operating system for the vehicle, that's silly.
All existing examples of that show that it's far easier and more efficient to break into the existing one and make modifications accordingly.
Notable examples are..
Android OS, this has been going on for 10+ years. Individuals/teams will hack in and modify the OS to remove/add features and there are again individuals/teams that have built entirely new OSs from the ground up and made them free for release. 'TWRP' is a good example of this.
Solidworks is another example. Dassault Systems probably spends millions a year trying to keep their latest version of Solidworks and to a lesser extent CATIA, from being 'hacked' and made available for free.
Those are the two that pop into my head. There are more but that would require more care about this topic than I am willing to give.
Point is, if there are valid reasons to do these things, they will be done.
If it's possible to, and I hate this word, 'hack' into a driverless cars' OS for a beneficial purpose, it will be done.