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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/11/21
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Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <3293C05E.7932@thomsoft.com> Dave Wood <dpw@thomsoft.com> writes:

  > Yes, but to date Boeing and the airline industry have shown far
  > more interest in safe software than the backward automotive
  > industry.  I suspect it will take a catastrophic and
  > widely-publicized failure (more to the point, one resulting in
  > large liability claims) before this industry decides to take steps
  > to protect their shareholders^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h customers from
  > "Level A" software failures.

   You are an optimist.  There has already been one major incident
like this (the Audi 5000), and one which is just developing (air-bags
firing when they shouldn't).  The belief is that the Audi 5000 cases
were single point hardware failures, and the air-bag problem may turn
out to be the same.  But the automotive industry sees both as business
as usual, no cause for alarm.


--

					Robert I. Eachus

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