At 03:19 PM 10/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>She also wrote:
><"Not to mention, if my PC crashes it's a nuisance, but if my cruise
>control goes whacky it could kill me!">
>Never fear - cruise controls are designed to fail in "It won't work" mode
>not in "I can't stop it from working" mode. That is, it requires everything
>to be functional in order to hold your accelerator open and if any of the
>components fails, the accelerator closes. Of course if we believe that a
>computer may become homicidal then I suppose the cruise control processor
>could "decide" to kill itself and us along with it by running us into
>something a full throttle. But the cruise control module is pretty far from
>Hal (2001). It has the computational power of a hand-held calculator.
>Sorry for continuing with the OT but you've got to admit modules that are
>below 8088 power are pretty SurvPC <G>
>Dave
well, for the record, we did have that happen in town about two years ago,
a man and his son powered to death in the river when his van's computer
system went into failure. Vroooom, flight, and boom. Took awhile to
figure why he stomped on the gas while approaching the 3way intersection at
the river and drove into the water, but autopsies on van and human finally
revealed electronic error. I wasn't just assuming.
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