> On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Sean Conner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> It could be due to an unforseen situation not considered by the designers.
> Several years ago a friend of mine bricked at CAR (BMW I believe---it was a
> high end German car in any case). He was updating the firmware on the car
> when the power cut out, leaving the firmware in an inconsistent state. The
> fix required an engineer from Germany to fly to the US ...
>
> -spc (Some things you just don't think about … )
True. But any designer who implements firmware update without considering the
possibility of power failure is not qualified for the job.
paul
