On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Todd Walton wrote: > On 5/19/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't DOT or someone have regulatory oversight of steering > > and braking systems? > > I believe it would be the National Highway Traffic Safety > Administration, a bureacracy within the Department of Transportation. > > http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ >
Gotcha > I'd like to know more about what they're doing to ensure accidents > don't happen. More importantly, I'd like to know what the automobile > manufacturers are doing. If a digital computer can't hack it, the > digital computer needs to go, IMNVHO. > > -todd Maybe not go, but have a fail-over. If my (digitized) antilock brakes (which I like) go, my brakes still stop the car. I have to press like a lead-footed elephant, but they work. Not so, apparently, this steering system. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
