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This is also why I am of afraid of a self driving cars and other such life critical software. There are going to be weird edge cases, what prevents you from reaching them?

Formal systems?



Formal systems are still built on a model of the outside world, not on the world itself FAFAIK. Even if your formal coverage is 100%, you can not anticipate all weird edge cases the real world can come up with.




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