Grant wrote:
> Ford Motor Co. produces a car with a defect. The defect turns out
> be a possible source of injury. The result: Ford is *legally liable*
> to recall and fix said vehicles.
Probably won't be far off. Software is moving fast into cars and trucks for:
1. in-car systems such as navigation, email and other horrors
2. driving automation including lane-keeping and collision avoidance
3. drive-by-wire, analagous to aviation's fly-by-wire
Currently, the engineers and researchers working on these applications are
very switched on folks, critically aware of safety, redundancy and so on.
However if dopes from business-software markets get involved, we will almost
certainly see people killed and injured.
Regards, Tony Healy
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Now the trouble comes when you can't think of any new features, so you put
in the paperclip, and then you take out the paperclip, and you try to charge
people both times, and they aren't falling for it. Joel
Eschler(www.joelonsoftware.com)
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