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Someone informed me that the Toyota accelerator problem was related to a computer glitch, its quite like a fly by wire set up. I do not know if this is correct but for the case of my topic lets assume it is.
I dont trust computers as far as you can throw them. Over the last 25 years of being around computers in the home and to sum degree at work I have seen nothing yet to make me change my mind.
Computers play such a major roll in our society that its left huge open gaps for abuse, damage and miss information, if my small town banks computer system failed as at the same time its back up went out to lunch, who on earth would convince them that I had X Y Z in the bank, coupled with the integrity of bankers these days im done for.
I am a pipe welder, I did a job in quite a fare size city here on the eastern seaboard of the united states back in 1998. The building was high and on top on the building they had two Caterpillar generators as a back up system solely for there computer system. The customer was a major bank here. We were installing two new fuel lines up the chase in the middle of the building. The facilities manager told me that the computer center housed here filters through ¼ of the US commerce each day. Go figure how venerable that is.
The Europeans have collectively been building commercial jet liners that are strictly fly by wire and there record is dismal. Now I know you could not fly a f22 without the computer helping you but there is a difference between a single seat jet fighter flying into war and if lost its the price of doing business other than 300 people flying and going on holiday. I notice Boeing not jumping on the fly by wire wisely so!.
There is a place in this world for computers, just dont rely on them. I know your going to say that a computer is only as good as the program is and this is true, so now we have the human element thrown in. people make mistakes thats why programs will never be 100%.
But I still feel if you had a 100% perfect program these little quirky bits of silica and copper and electrons still have minds of there own.
I after all these years still use a calculator to do sums but if I am not sure will go straight back to pencil and paper and work it out to make myself feel better.
Toyota will be in the hole probably in the billions for a chip worth $0.00003 and a human being that was too interested in going out that night as he was designing the program.
All the best Anthony.
Someone informed me that the Toyota accelerator problem was related to a computer glitch, its quite like a fly by wire set up. I do not know if this is correct but for the case of my topic lets assume it is.
I dont trust computers as far as you can throw them. Over the last 25 years of being around computers in the home and to sum degree at work I have seen nothing yet to make me change my mind.
Computers play such a major roll in our society that its left huge open gaps for abuse, damage and miss information, if my small town banks computer system failed as at the same time its back up went out to lunch, who on earth would convince them that I had X Y Z in the bank, coupled with the integrity of bankers these days im done for.
I am a pipe welder, I did a job in quite a fare size city here on the eastern seaboard of the united states back in 1998. The building was high and on top on the building they had two Caterpillar generators as a back up system solely for there computer system. The customer was a major bank here. We were installing two new fuel lines up the chase in the middle of the building. The facilities manager told me that the computer center housed here filters through ¼ of the US commerce each day. Go figure how venerable that is.
The Europeans have collectively been building commercial jet liners that are strictly fly by wire and there record is dismal. Now I know you could not fly a f22 without the computer helping you but there is a difference between a single seat jet fighter flying into war and if lost its the price of doing business other than 300 people flying and going on holiday. I notice Boeing not jumping on the fly by wire wisely so!.
There is a place in this world for computers, just dont rely on them. I know your going to say that a computer is only as good as the program is and this is true, so now we have the human element thrown in. people make mistakes thats why programs will never be 100%.
But I still feel if you had a 100% perfect program these little quirky bits of silica and copper and electrons still have minds of there own.
I after all these years still use a calculator to do sums but if I am not sure will go straight back to pencil and paper and work it out to make myself feel better.
Toyota will be in the hole probably in the billions for a chip worth $0.00003 and a human being that was too interested in going out that night as he was designing the program.
All the best Anthony.
