Another recall today for Lexus.
And the Economist writer mentioned Three-Mile-Island incident (runaway technology) in his piece about automobile software bugs.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/05/techview_cars_and_software_bugs
Acceptable loss? Should have mentioned Amtrak while at it.
When we rolled out VoIP back in 2000, we experienced frequent dropped calls (Beta).
The land line analog had enjoyed 99.999 reliability. Multiplexing and VoIP methodically crawled through the “valley of death” to be accepted by the majority
(and I-Phone now got adopted by the Japanese market. Bravo!). It’s so “disruptive” that an approximate 1 million telecom workers are out on the street.
Meanwhile, automobiles, especially the luxury lines have moved up the high-tech chain i.e. automation both in the make up and making of the cars
(cruise control, GPS, speech recognition, dashboard, etc…).
Give me a break (literally).
I admit I have never put on cruise control even on my cross-country zig zag.
I need to have my hands on 10′ and 2 o’ clock position, just the way I was taught at driving school.
People must understand that more accidents occur through driving than flying.
Regulators haven’t been adapting to “speed of thought” as the digital world converges with the mechanical world, Silicon Valley met Detroit.
(they dropped the EV project 20 years ago back in Long Beach, CA in favor of “roll-over” Explorers).
If the fast food industry now posts nutritional facts on their menu, then the automobile industry
should also list their reliability specs on the window stickers. (This buggy got XXX amount of bugs).
After all, shopping is shopping. Whether it’s for here or to go.
Why should buying a car be such a headache and anxiety-driven activity?
Want to push metal?, then listen to the one who holds the purse.
Softbank in Japan sure did some listening when trying to get Japanese to try the I-Phone.
It’s like selling refrigerators to Eskimos. They keep your food from being frozen, 99.9999 reliability.
Thang Nguyen 555 