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with only a few exceptions for safety, like cars.

Safety means extra-flashable.

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Yeah man, can’t wait to be sharing the road with people running custom ROMs on their 2 ton death machine. People are well known for being responsible in situations like that.

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Quite frankly why the hell should I trust any publicly traded automaker to flash quality software?

Some of them have a track record for quantifying the cost of fixing an issue versus cost of settling lawsuits for that unfixed issue killing people.

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Why would I trust an unaccountable rando with the same thing? One has a brand they need to uphold, and are liable for any kind of damages caused by their firmware.

When Joe Shmo crashes his soft-modded Honda Civic into a crowd of people, who’s going to pay for the damage and lawsuits, etc.?

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because roadways are so safe and free from accidents as is.

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Right, exactly. We don’t need more.

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People do already. It’s called tuning. I drove a car I custom tuned myself for 3 years…

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Skill issue?

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