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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
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Colin Paul Gloster wrote:

>Ok, I really cannot believe that the embedded side would be that bad,
>surely planes, cars, etc. wouldn't be safe.

Well, are they?

<URL:http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200301=
/msg00180.html>:

|Auto industry expert Dennis Virag, president of the Automotive
|Consulting Group Inc., says the problem is not customer ignorance,
|but industry carelessness. In the race to add glitzy amenities like
|navigation, Virag says, auto manufacturers are contracting out the
|development of immature and faulty software. "The auto industry is
|highly regulated, and these are not mission-critical systems," he
|says. "But companies like Microsoft can't do to the auto industry
|what they did to the PC industry. You can't play Russian Roulette
|every time you stick the key into the ignition."

"These are not mission-critical systems." Oh well.


Vinzent.