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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Avionic Proximity Warning
Date: 4 Jan 1995 14:48:03 GMT
Date: 1995-01-04T14:48:03+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3eecf3$179s@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: INFO-ADA%95010309592615@VM1.NODAK.EDU

In article <INFO-ADA%95010309592615@VM1.NODAK.EDU>, CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM
writes: 

|> Basically, it worked by having two planes trade off
|> positional information and if they agreed that they were in
|> immanent danger of collision (something under a mile, if memory
|> serves) they'd take a vote on which direction each plane should
|> move in.

A two-voter vote?  That sounds fishy, given the high probability of a
tie.

--
Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~1995-01-04 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-01-03 15:59 Avionic Proximity Warning CONDIC
1995-01-03 19:14 ` Joe Rodnite
1995-01-04 14:48 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1995-01-04 18:48   ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-04 23:55   ` Dave Funk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-01-05 15:33 CONDIC
1994-12-31 15:44 Bob Wells #402
1995-01-03 19:48 ` IanMaclure
1994-12-31 13:51 Bob Wells #402
1995-01-03 23:33 ` Robert I. Eachus
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