From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Any Ada in this? Or would Ada have helped Toyota save $2b?...
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:58:11 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-02-04T08:58:11-08:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 048f46b0-f201-400e-9a8e-ef8b31b6d8f1@u15g2000prd.googlegroups.com
On Feb 4, 4:14 pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 4:47 am, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8497471.stm
>
> > It's states that this is a software problem but doesn't give
> > details...anyone know anything about this?
>
> (1) the linked article is mostly about flaws in the braking system, which has
> not yet cost Toyota anywhere near $2B;
It's the figure quoted for lost revenue in the paragraph "Profits
Surge".
> (2) I can't find anywhere where
> the article refers to a software problem (thus, I have no idea what
> you mean by "[It] states that this is a software problem");
The original article headline mentioned software...but they've gone
and changed it!
Cheers
-- Martin
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 12:47 Any Ada in this? Or would Ada have helped Toyota save $2b? Martin
2010-02-04 16:14 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-04 16:58 ` Martin [this message]
2010-02-04 18:17 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-04 20:05 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-05 9:59 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-05 16:48 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-05 20:31 ` sjw
2010-02-05 21:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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