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Perhaps because cars ran just fine (albeit with fewer features) for a long time with zero lines of code.


So did horses without any gasoline


Yeah, and so did banks, and so did airplanes.


So the more important question is: did adding software improve things (enough to be worth the “cost”)?

With cars, there are certainly many things where it did improve things: satnav, reverse camera, traction control etc, but also some where it made a perfectly working system worse (ie the “fixed” something that wasn’t broken): touchscreen dashboards.




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