People rarely get hit with the maximum penalty though. That max is there to prevent judges with justice priapisms from putting a guy behind bars forever because he didn't pay a parking ticket.
He plead out and agreed to pay for the damages so he likely wont get the maximum sentence.
We have been consistently pushing back the line at which someone is well and truly "dead" for quite some time. It used to be that if someone's heart stopped that was it. But then we learned how to restart hearts. Then it became an issue of starting it fast enough. The window of time to resuscitate someone has gotten larger and larger over the last few decades to the point where someone can be "dead" for minutes at a time and can still come back. It logically follows that as time goes on that window will get bigger and bigger and we will be able to repair greater and greater damage. Just the other day we found it is possible for hearts to repair after damage from a heart attack. Previously that was thought impossible. Who knows, maybe some day we will get to the point where most causes of death can be reversed.
Why did you buy a 1st gen ryzen in 2019 when 3rd gen is two months away? Everyone knows the first chips had some errata. They always do when developing a new core architecture. Maybe instead of being cheap and buying used out of warranty hardware for your server you should do it right?
People are buying AMD and they are selling well. It's partially due to the new competitiveness of their chips. But I think the main reason is the global chip shortage from Intel. Currently only the big three SIs, Dell, HP and Lenovo can seem to get all the chips they need. Everyone else has had to start buying AMD to meet their production numbers.
And I do think it is inevitable that as a company grows in size and wealth it will eventually get into the financial market. We already see it with Apple and their recent partnership.
Well any single user OS wouldn't have any privilege escalation exploits because the only user has full access anyways. Just think of all of the old 8bit micros, you power it on and had full access, even low level hardware control. *taps forehead* can't have escalation bugs if there's nothing to escalate.
They could have done things better with STS sure. Part of its design are due to conceptual limitations given what they wanted to achieve, part was due to technological limitations, and part was also probably just bad idea. The Buran setup with the main engines in the booster and not the orbiter was better. You would still need the OMS of course. The biggest issue I see is that with the cheap and simple solid rocket boosters and fuel tank, by the standards of the day they were cheap to expend and that was fine. If you really want something like Buran to work then the main booster needs to be reusable as well. Which means it needs to land like a falcon. I don't think the technology was there yet. People like to talk about how as designed Buran was superior to the STS but it only flew once so we have no idea how the economics would have worked out. I think throwing away all of that hardware every launch would have been a bad value proposition.
Nonsense. Their growth has slowed because there isn't much more room to grow at this point. Outside of amazon the only internet retail that's doing well is either niche and outside of what Amazon offers (such as collectibles, guns, etc) or has a model that is incompatible with Amazon's (auction model).
This is the same kind of gloom and doom bullshit you see spouted in those "the PC is dead" trash articles. Just because growth isn't massive, does not mean a company isn't healthy.
There was literally an article posted last week that claimed the same thing, the PC's are dieing.
I said it before and I'll say it again. The PC market isn't dead, its mature. At this point the majority of new sales are to replace attrition. A PC from 2019 is not a big enough improvement over one from 2018 to justify the year over year sales growth the industry became accustomed to seeing. Now you are looking at closer to a 4-5 year replacement cycle. And depending on usecase you don't even need that.
It used to be that the new shit was so much more capable than the year before that not only did it make sense to rapidly upgrade but it was often necessary to do so. It hasn't been that was since about 2012.
The problem is, nobody can. Lets take sports for example since that's still one of the last areas where traditional cable is strong. The major sports associations, NFL, MLB, NHL etc have exclusivity agreements with these cable channels. As long as ESPN has a deal with the NFL it wont be on Netflix.
You can't really "see" a black hole of course. But you can infer its there. Blackholes aren't invisible in the sense an invisibility cloak from fantasy. They just appear as a black disc because no light escapes them. So I guess depending on your perspective and definition of "see", you can see them if there is a suitable background to place it on. Blackholes look like the blackest black possible. Zero definition in texture or form. I would imagine if we ever managed to fly a spacecraft close enough to one to look at it with our eyes it would be really really hard to look at. Maybe even vertigo inducing.
Agreed. Just look at 4chan, the guys who tried to get "hitler did nothing wrong" voted as a new Mountain Dew flavor. The do it to get a rise out of people, or in their own words, do it for the lulz. There certainly are real neo nazis, stormfront wouldn't exist otherwise, but that site has always been tiny. I think it more closely represents the true size of such groups. And they aren't all that big or threatening.
What we do have is a polarization problem right now. It feels like people are generally more divided than they have been in some time. Trolls being trolls and Godwin's law has always been a thing. But now I see people seriously calling others Nazis and getting into fights about it. Guys, nobody is a Nazi. We used to be able to disagree about politics. Just exaggerating everything and demonizing one another just pushes each other farther apart. Until eventually we do have people who are something like Nazis when they otherwise wouldn't be.
Huh, I had no idea there was a federal web design office. I guess it makes sense. Somebody needs to get the mess that are government websites sorted out.
On the other hand chromecasting to arbitrary devices has worked ok for me. I have both a chromecast 2 and a TV with built in support and I have no problem casting from my phone or PC to either.
If you aren't an American then why does your sig say "we" used to have a bill of rights. You didn't have anything. Given your English is good that means you are likely from one of the commonwealth nations. So a subject who ultimately has no rights.
It's funny he says they undermine democracy but then acts like censoring information isn't undermining democracy. You can't have it both ways. For free speech to work it must be absolute. The tyrants of NZ clearly don't see it that way though.
And all the while instead of addressing this obvious issue the EU has been going in the wrong direction and making rules that will further fracture their digital market.
You are talking about two separate issues. I agree that the US gov spying on its people is unconstitutional. But that isn't what we were talking about. We were talking about how America spies on other nations. Which I think is not only fine but necessary. It's expected. It's also expected that we will do our best to stop them from spying on us. Bringing up the US spying on its own people is irrelevant to this discussion and complaining the the US also spies on other nations is whattaboutism.
The PC isn't fading. Its MATURE. The tech sector has never dealt with product maturity well. I think its because the silicon valley mindset pushes the notion of constant improvements. Until recently PC's have seen year over year obvious feature and performance improvements. Back in the 90's it was common to say your computer was obsolete before you got it out of the box and that was certainly true. But today you can do just fine on a computer over 5 years old depending on your workload. My primary personal laptop is a ThinkPad x230. My work laptop is a new T480 and honestly the T480 isn't all that better.Standard office work, media consumption and casual gaming can all be done on systems that a decade ago would have been tossed in the trash. The overall PC market is shrinking some, coming off of the 30 odd year growth high its had but the niches where there is never enough performance continue to see growth. Gaming PC's, media content creation, programming, scientific uses etc are all doing fine and very profitable. It just so happens to be that 90% of PC users dont fall into those categories. They check their email, watch Netflix and use Turbotax once a year. You can do that on a mid range i5 several generations old no problem.
PC's have also been pushed out of some markets where there is better suited form factors. Smartphone, tablets, chromebooks etc are common but the analysts said all of those would dethrone the PC. None of them have, tablets have actually started to take a downturn as smartphones have morphed to fill both roles. And even the phones have just about reached maturity. They definitely have reached saturation.
This is the natural evolution of markets. Eventually you get to a point where major product improvements become less common and you simply have refinement. It happened to cars, at some point in the 80's or 90's normal cars got about as good as they are today in terms of safety, reliability and performance. They didn't stop improving but a mid 90's Camry is still perfectly fine. It's reliable, its safe and it gets decent economy. A 2019 Camry is better still, but not so much that I would just toss the older one if it was still in good working order. The same couldn't be said comparing a 70's sedan to a 90's one though. Its unlikely a 70's car would have even made it into the 90's unless an unreasonable amount of money had been spent on it or if it had some collector value that makes it worthwhile.
One thing that has changed is that as technology improves it seems that it takes less and less time for a product to move from its growth stage to maturity. Cars took the better part of a century to get there. The personal computer took about 30 years. Smartphones have done it in a decade. The next cool consumer product will probably go from hot new thing to perfected in around 5 years. Again, maturity doesn't mean people stop buying it or that it doesn't get better. What it does mean is that for most consumers its "good enough". Aside from niche use cases year over year improvements become minor and the majority of sales are based on replacing attrition due to damage, failure, loss or theft. Niche an high end subsets like luxury cars, gaming PC's and $1k smartphones are broadly immune to this. But the demographics who buy into them are either dedicated enough or rich enough to be able to commit to replacing their hardware often.
I keep saying ??? I didn't say there was no proof he did:
Really? So what does this mean?
I think that if there was a shred of proof that China is using Huawei to spy on the ROW Trump would have tweeted the proof of it before his first intelligence briefing on the subject was over.
... and US firms have been caught red handed conducting industrial espionage too, sometimes with the help of the US government and its three letter agencies. China has a shorter history of stealing our secrets than the US does so why, pray tell, should I trust the US any more than the Chinese?
Whattaboutism. Believe it or not but a lot of us don't care if our government is spying on other governments. We only care if the others do it back to us. Yes that may sound hypocritical or jingoistic but welcome to realpolitik. You try to get as much dirt on the other guy you can and prevent him from doing the same unto you. That's how this game works and always has worked. I want my country and allies to do well and everyone else can kick dirt for all I care. It doesn't matter if they are nice people or not. I'm still rooting for the home team. But the fact that China's government is tyrannical certainly helps. We do not live in a post scarcity world, we may one day but we don't now. There is only so much to go around and if you want your loved ones to have a safe and comfortable life then someone else has to miss out. It sucks but that's the truth. I'd rather my loved ones be the ones to benefit.
Just because you keep saying there isn't proof doesn't mean that its true. These Chinese firms have been caught on more than one occasion red handed already. How many times does it take before you admit they are either letting their masters do what they want or are outright malicious themselves? At this point there doesn't even have to be a new specific exploit or issue, the long history of active attempts by the Chinese to steal our secrets is reason enough to cut them out of any critical systems.
To reach orbit one must achieve a velocity of around 25000 feet per second; a 50BMG round travels at around this speed.
No it does not. 50 BMG has a muzzle velocity closer to 2500 feet per second. You are an entire order of magnitude off. 50 BMG is fast but its not at orbital velocity.
While other nations like the US and Russia have done this in the past, we have learned a lot over the years and dont do it again. We made those mistakes and now nobody else should have to repeat them. There are treaties and best practices in place that is supposed to mitigate the issue of orbital debris. Satellites in a low enough orbit are now supposed to deorbit, satellites too high for that are supposed to boost themselves into a graveyard orbit out of the way. First China and now India have shown their hubris by violating these norms and creating debris with their hamfisted attempts to wear big boy pants. China is an even worse example because they aren't even good stewards of their own trash. It was last year we were worried about what their derelict space station would crash into after they let it reenter.
And it's so easy to sit back and say the US government are hypocrites and point at skylab and strfish prime. But that is about as valid an argument as a 16 year old calling his dad a hypocrite for saying he cant smoke. Just because someone made stupid decisions in the past does not invalidate their position. I would also argue that Star Fish was a case of nobody knew it would knock out all of those satellites, not to mention it knocked out nobodies but our own and space was still strictly the playground of government projects and not the massive commercial sector it is today. The only people they wronged by launching that nuke were themselves. As for skylab, that was never intended to reenter. That one is a failure of bureaucracy in not getting the STS online fast enough as planned.
With this missile though, India not only has past examples to go off of but the US has also demonstrated the right way to do these things. As the last time they shot a satellite down, it was done in such as way that it did not create extra debris. They intended to flex their muscles and show everyone their might. What they really did was demonstrate how they have no idea what they are doing. Merely children playing with toys.
I think formally proving the code does have security relevance. While you are right Rowhammer and the like are unaffected, most vulnerabilities and attacks are centered around failures in the code. Those attacks that exploit poor implementations and lazy programmers are easier to implement. So formally proving your code is valuable. So is taking a security first approach to the project. It's usually impractical or impossible for a dev team to fix or verify security flaws at other levels like the Kernel or hardware. The best they can do is ensure that their bit of responsibility, the application, is written securely. And try as best they can to mitigate what they cant control.
Or if it uses any third party APIs or Libraries. Which you know it does. Doesn't matter if internally their program is free of faults if it interacts with something that isn't.
"The rest of the findings are all based on scenarios in which the physical environment around the vehicle is artificially altered to make the automatic windshield wipers or Autopilot system behave differently, which is not a realistic concern given that a driver can easily override Autopilot at any time by using the steering wheel or brakes and should always be prepared to do so and can manually operate the windshield wiper settings at all times."
While I agree that it shouldn't be a realistic concern, people are stupid. And there have been a few cases where drivers have relied on autopilot too much and have caused wrecks. I don't think this is Tesla's fault really, people don't understand the different levels of automation although they could probably do a better job of explaining what autopilot does and does not do. The name is appropriate, like real autopilot in an aircraft, the driver has to pay attention and be ready to take control at any time.
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People rarely get hit with the maximum penalty though. That max is there to prevent judges with justice priapisms from putting a guy behind bars forever because he didn't pay a parking ticket.
He plead out and agreed to pay for the damages so he likely wont get the maximum sentence.
We have been consistently pushing back the line at which someone is well and truly "dead" for quite some time. It used to be that if someone's heart stopped that was it. But then we learned how to restart hearts. Then it became an issue of starting it fast enough. The window of time to resuscitate someone has gotten larger and larger over the last few decades to the point where someone can be "dead" for minutes at a time and can still come back. It logically follows that as time goes on that window will get bigger and bigger and we will be able to repair greater and greater damage. Just the other day we found it is possible for hearts to repair after damage from a heart attack. Previously that was thought impossible. Who knows, maybe some day we will get to the point where most causes of death can be reversed.
Why did you buy a 1st gen ryzen in 2019 when 3rd gen is two months away? Everyone knows the first chips had some errata. They always do when developing a new core architecture. Maybe instead of being cheap and buying used out of warranty hardware for your server you should do it right?
People are buying AMD and they are selling well. It's partially due to the new competitiveness of their chips. But I think the main reason is the global chip shortage from Intel. Currently only the big three SIs, Dell, HP and Lenovo can seem to get all the chips they need. Everyone else has had to start buying AMD to meet their production numbers.
And I do think it is inevitable that as a company grows in size and wealth it will eventually get into the financial market. We already see it with Apple and their recent partnership.
Well any single user OS wouldn't have any privilege escalation exploits because the only user has full access anyways. Just think of all of the old 8bit micros, you power it on and had full access, even low level hardware control. *taps forehead* can't have escalation bugs if there's nothing to escalate.
They could have done things better with STS sure. Part of its design are due to conceptual limitations given what they wanted to achieve, part was due to technological limitations, and part was also probably just bad idea. The Buran setup with the main engines in the booster and not the orbiter was better. You would still need the OMS of course. The biggest issue I see is that with the cheap and simple solid rocket boosters and fuel tank, by the standards of the day they were cheap to expend and that was fine. If you really want something like Buran to work then the main booster needs to be reusable as well. Which means it needs to land like a falcon. I don't think the technology was there yet. People like to talk about how as designed Buran was superior to the STS but it only flew once so we have no idea how the economics would have worked out. I think throwing away all of that hardware every launch would have been a bad value proposition.
Nonsense. Their growth has slowed because there isn't much more room to grow at this point. Outside of amazon the only internet retail that's doing well is either niche and outside of what Amazon offers (such as collectibles, guns, etc) or has a model that is incompatible with Amazon's (auction model).
This is the same kind of gloom and doom bullshit you see spouted in those "the PC is dead" trash articles. Just because growth isn't massive, does not mean a company isn't healthy.
There was literally an article posted last week that claimed the same thing, the PC's are dieing.
I said it before and I'll say it again. The PC market isn't dead, its mature. At this point the majority of new sales are to replace attrition. A PC from 2019 is not a big enough improvement over one from 2018 to justify the year over year sales growth the industry became accustomed to seeing. Now you are looking at closer to a 4-5 year replacement cycle. And depending on usecase you don't even need that.
It used to be that the new shit was so much more capable than the year before that not only did it make sense to rapidly upgrade but it was often necessary to do so. It hasn't been that was since about 2012.
The problem is, nobody can. Lets take sports for example since that's still one of the last areas where traditional cable is strong. The major sports associations, NFL, MLB, NHL etc have exclusivity agreements with these cable channels. As long as ESPN has a deal with the NFL it wont be on Netflix.
You can't really "see" a black hole of course. But you can infer its there. Blackholes aren't invisible in the sense an invisibility cloak from fantasy. They just appear as a black disc because no light escapes them. So I guess depending on your perspective and definition of "see", you can see them if there is a suitable background to place it on. Blackholes look like the blackest black possible. Zero definition in texture or form. I would imagine if we ever managed to fly a spacecraft close enough to one to look at it with our eyes it would be really really hard to look at. Maybe even vertigo inducing.
Agreed. Just look at 4chan, the guys who tried to get "hitler did nothing wrong" voted as a new Mountain Dew flavor. The do it to get a rise out of people, or in their own words, do it for the lulz. There certainly are real neo nazis, stormfront wouldn't exist otherwise, but that site has always been tiny. I think it more closely represents the true size of such groups. And they aren't all that big or threatening.
What we do have is a polarization problem right now. It feels like people are generally more divided than they have been in some time. Trolls being trolls and Godwin's law has always been a thing. But now I see people seriously calling others Nazis and getting into fights about it. Guys, nobody is a Nazi. We used to be able to disagree about politics. Just exaggerating everything and demonizing one another just pushes each other farther apart. Until eventually we do have people who are something like Nazis when they otherwise wouldn't be.
Huh, I had no idea there was a federal web design office. I guess it makes sense. Somebody needs to get the mess that are government websites sorted out.
On the other hand chromecasting to arbitrary devices has worked ok for me. I have both a chromecast 2 and a TV with built in support and I have no problem casting from my phone or PC to either.
If you aren't an American then why does your sig say "we" used to have a bill of rights. You didn't have anything. Given your English is good that means you are likely from one of the commonwealth nations. So a subject who ultimately has no rights.
It's funny he says they undermine democracy but then acts like censoring information isn't undermining democracy. You can't have it both ways. For free speech to work it must be absolute. The tyrants of NZ clearly don't see it that way though.
And all the while instead of addressing this obvious issue the EU has been going in the wrong direction and making rules that will further fracture their digital market.
You are talking about two separate issues. I agree that the US gov spying on its people is unconstitutional. But that isn't what we were talking about. We were talking about how America spies on other nations. Which I think is not only fine but necessary. It's expected. It's also expected that we will do our best to stop them from spying on us. Bringing up the US spying on its own people is irrelevant to this discussion and complaining the the US also spies on other nations is whattaboutism.
The PC isn't fading. Its MATURE. The tech sector has never dealt with product maturity well. I think its because the silicon valley mindset pushes the notion of constant improvements. Until recently PC's have seen year over year obvious feature and performance improvements. Back in the 90's it was common to say your computer was obsolete before you got it out of the box and that was certainly true. But today you can do just fine on a computer over 5 years old depending on your workload. My primary personal laptop is a ThinkPad x230. My work laptop is a new T480 and honestly the T480 isn't all that better.Standard office work, media consumption and casual gaming can all be done on systems that a decade ago would have been tossed in the trash. The overall PC market is shrinking some, coming off of the 30 odd year growth high its had but the niches where there is never enough performance continue to see growth. Gaming PC's, media content creation, programming, scientific uses etc are all doing fine and very profitable. It just so happens to be that 90% of PC users dont fall into those categories. They check their email, watch Netflix and use Turbotax once a year. You can do that on a mid range i5 several generations old no problem.
PC's have also been pushed out of some markets where there is better suited form factors. Smartphone, tablets, chromebooks etc are common but the analysts said all of those would dethrone the PC. None of them have, tablets have actually started to take a downturn as smartphones have morphed to fill both roles. And even the phones have just about reached maturity. They definitely have reached saturation.
This is the natural evolution of markets. Eventually you get to a point where major product improvements become less common and you simply have refinement. It happened to cars, at some point in the 80's or 90's normal cars got about as good as they are today in terms of safety, reliability and performance. They didn't stop improving but a mid 90's Camry is still perfectly fine. It's reliable, its safe and it gets decent economy. A 2019 Camry is better still, but not so much that I would just toss the older one if it was still in good working order. The same couldn't be said comparing a 70's sedan to a 90's one though. Its unlikely a 70's car would have even made it into the 90's unless an unreasonable amount of money had been spent on it or if it had some collector value that makes it worthwhile.
One thing that has changed is that as technology improves it seems that it takes less and less time for a product to move from its growth stage to maturity. Cars took the better part of a century to get there. The personal computer took about 30 years. Smartphones have done it in a decade. The next cool consumer product will probably go from hot new thing to perfected in around 5 years. Again, maturity doesn't mean people stop buying it or that it doesn't get better. What it does mean is that for most consumers its "good enough". Aside from niche use cases year over year improvements become minor and the majority of sales are based on replacing attrition due to damage, failure, loss or theft. Niche an high end subsets like luxury cars, gaming PC's and $1k smartphones are broadly immune to this. But the demographics who buy into them are either dedicated enough or rich enough to be able to commit to replacing their hardware often.
I keep saying ??? I didn't say there was no proof he did:
Really? So what does this mean?
I think that if there was a shred of proof that China is using Huawei to spy on the ROW Trump would have tweeted the proof of it before his first intelligence briefing on the subject was over.
... and US firms have been caught red handed conducting industrial espionage too, sometimes with the help of the US government and its three letter agencies. China has a shorter history of stealing our secrets than the US does so why, pray tell, should I trust the US any more than the Chinese?
Whattaboutism. Believe it or not but a lot of us don't care if our government is spying on other governments. We only care if the others do it back to us. Yes that may sound hypocritical or jingoistic but welcome to realpolitik. You try to get as much dirt on the other guy you can and prevent him from doing the same unto you. That's how this game works and always has worked. I want my country and allies to do well and everyone else can kick dirt for all I care. It doesn't matter if they are nice people or not. I'm still rooting for the home team. But the fact that China's government is tyrannical certainly helps. We do not live in a post scarcity world, we may one day but we don't now. There is only so much to go around and if you want your loved ones to have a safe and comfortable life then someone else has to miss out. It sucks but that's the truth. I'd rather my loved ones be the ones to benefit.
Just because you keep saying there isn't proof doesn't mean that its true. These Chinese firms have been caught on more than one occasion red handed already. How many times does it take before you admit they are either letting their masters do what they want or are outright malicious themselves? At this point there doesn't even have to be a new specific exploit or issue, the long history of active attempts by the Chinese to steal our secrets is reason enough to cut them out of any critical systems.
To reach orbit one must achieve a velocity of around 25000 feet per second; a 50BMG round travels at around this speed.
No it does not. 50 BMG has a muzzle velocity closer to 2500 feet per second. You are an entire order of magnitude off. 50 BMG is fast but its not at orbital velocity.
While other nations like the US and Russia have done this in the past, we have learned a lot over the years and dont do it again. We made those mistakes and now nobody else should have to repeat them. There are treaties and best practices in place that is supposed to mitigate the issue of orbital debris. Satellites in a low enough orbit are now supposed to deorbit, satellites too high for that are supposed to boost themselves into a graveyard orbit out of the way. First China and now India have shown their hubris by violating these norms and creating debris with their hamfisted attempts to wear big boy pants. China is an even worse example because they aren't even good stewards of their own trash. It was last year we were worried about what their derelict space station would crash into after they let it reenter.
And it's so easy to sit back and say the US government are hypocrites and point at skylab and strfish prime. But that is about as valid an argument as a 16 year old calling his dad a hypocrite for saying he cant smoke. Just because someone made stupid decisions in the past does not invalidate their position. I would also argue that Star Fish was a case of nobody knew it would knock out all of those satellites, not to mention it knocked out nobodies but our own and space was still strictly the playground of government projects and not the massive commercial sector it is today. The only people they wronged by launching that nuke were themselves. As for skylab, that was never intended to reenter. That one is a failure of bureaucracy in not getting the STS online fast enough as planned.
With this missile though, India not only has past examples to go off of but the US has also demonstrated the right way to do these things. As the last time they shot a satellite down, it was done in such as way that it did not create extra debris. They intended to flex their muscles and show everyone their might. What they really did was demonstrate how they have no idea what they are doing. Merely children playing with toys.
I think formally proving the code does have security relevance. While you are right Rowhammer and the like are unaffected, most vulnerabilities and attacks are centered around failures in the code. Those attacks that exploit poor implementations and lazy programmers are easier to implement. So formally proving your code is valuable. So is taking a security first approach to the project. It's usually impractical or impossible for a dev team to fix or verify security flaws at other levels like the Kernel or hardware. The best they can do is ensure that their bit of responsibility, the application, is written securely. And try as best they can to mitigate what they cant control.
Or if it uses any third party APIs or Libraries. Which you know it does. Doesn't matter if internally their program is free of faults if it interacts with something that isn't.
"The rest of the findings are all based on scenarios in which the physical environment around the vehicle is artificially altered to make the automatic windshield wipers or Autopilot system behave differently, which is not a realistic concern given that a driver can easily override Autopilot at any time by using the steering wheel or brakes and should always be prepared to do so and can manually operate the windshield wiper settings at all times."
While I agree that it shouldn't be a realistic concern, people are stupid. And there have been a few cases where drivers have relied on autopilot too much and have caused wrecks. I don't think this is Tesla's fault really, people don't understand the different levels of automation although they could probably do a better job of explaining what autopilot does and does not do. The name is appropriate, like real autopilot in an aircraft, the driver has to pay attention and be ready to take control at any time.