Posts by Locomotion69 20 posts • joined 28 Aug 2014
Last time I heard that statement while troubleshooting a problem it made me go right there to look for it.
And for good reason...... Statistics are just "numbers".
Needless to say it was indeed a bunch of malfunctioning units which was supposed to be statistically "impossible".
"We have identified a transient issue impacting a backend service and we are actively scaling out our backend resources to mitigate the issue."
I am dying to receive a copy of the software capable in generating this kind of sentences - event politicians cannot be this vague...
Except that from the middle of next year, everything electronic which is now considered a gadget of some sort will be compulsary on a new car in the EU:
intelligent speed assistance,
alcohol interlock installation facilitation,
driver drowsiness and attention warning systems,
advanced driver distraction warning systems,
emergency stop signals,
reversing detection systems,
event data recorders,
accurate tyre pressure monitoring,
advanced emergency braking systems,
emergency lane-keeping systems,
enlarged head impact protection zones capable of mitigating injuries in collisions with vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists.
My Subaru from 2018 has most of these already installed, not sure about the alcohol interlock thing though.
Cons: more weight, more electronic reliance, and definitely (a lot) more cost.
No sir,
The problem was that the software was relying on flawed information from a defective AoA, the pilots not being aware of the presence of this particular software feature in the first place, and therefore not thinking of the option to just switch it off (button was provided, yet not documented anywhere).
That is exactly why planes fly themselves - but professional pilots are still there in order to take control if anything goes wrong.
That is also the same reason why self driving cars is an ultimate dump idea as there will be a lot "underaverage" skilled drivers behind the wheel when things go out of control.
The concept is good as a concept, but every implementation so far proves to be bad. Even worse, nothing will change until someone actually exploits a massive hack and shuts down an entire city/traffic network/airport/hospital/... Once we figure out that securing will be a. extremely expensive, b. make IoT devices going offline all the time thus crippling it functionality and c. does not provide 100% security we are forced to accept to be pwned every now and then.
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