On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > On the other hand, human drivers are hardly perfect either. Perhaps the > buggy software will be more reliable than an inattentive driver...
Maybe it will... The conversation gets intelligent when the principal concepts are seen for what they really are, doesn't it. The trick will be to beta test (on the real road) and fix, beta test and fix, beta test and fix. But they won't get me in one unless I'm sitting in the driver's seat with instant override. I haven't gotten to letting the Ford parallel park itself. Just can't go there. 40+ years in software development has left me with scars. The thing with Elecraft is that the management decided to harvest customer experience. As a result we have years of customer-driven fixes and improvements, some of it not found anywhere else. SAS Institute used that philosophy to drive a 1970's statistical system into the largest privately owned software company in the world, a 4 billion a year world-wide business based on uber-statistics, that is the BMW, Mercedes and Cadillac of its niche. Customers told SAS what the next thing needed to be, and SAS listened to them. Elecraft is in some pretty heady company by my reckoning. 73, Guy. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
