From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198167619 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 1996-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > In article <3293C05E.7932@thomsoft.com> Dave Wood 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 Sorry. There never was any evidence that there was anything wrong with the Audi 5000 accelerator. All the evidence pointed to the incompetence of the average American driver - who appears to be too stupid and clumsy to be able to determine the difference between an accelerator and break pedal. > The belief is that the Audi 5000 cases were single point hardware > failures Baloney. The end reports indicated a failure of the drivers to differentiate break and accelerator. Part of the problem appears to have been due to the placement of the pedals favoring a driver who actually knows something about car control and higher performance driving. Unfortunately, the marketeers targeted the wrong folks over here. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com