you ever had a computer “hang” or freeze?
Think real careful before buying a car that has computer controlled
acceleration
brakes
transmission
so if the computer hangs when the last input was speed up, and the brakes are computer controlled, and the transmission will no longer shift out of gear.....
but wait, I am sure you are confident that a California state trooper (off duty), simply made a mistake, even when on his celll phone telling people he could not shift the vehicle out of drive, could no slow down, and the brakes could not stop the vehicle......maybe he was conspiring to make toyota look bad, to the extent he crashed killing himself and his entire family?
I am a computer “guy” and the though of a “fly by wire” car scares me.
I won’t buy or own one. sorry. I am not betting my life on a it.
I won’t buy or own one. sorry. I am not betting my life on a it.
Me either.
I am glad to find one other person on here that gets it. It is in cases like this that a higher survival IQ is required to really see the big picture. Even very complex systems in the past often had “Manual Override”. Even space systems like Apollo 13. If the movie is at all accurate on that account then all those men would have died without the manual control. Jumbo jet aircraft had manual overrides. Even in the case where the accelerations were caused by a floor mat the fact remains that if these cars had a key to turn off then many dead people would still be alive. That police officer would still be alive. That is as much an electronic failure as any. It is just one that was by design. And Toyota should pay a very steep price for it. The government report is obviously contrived to give a false impression of the truth. Proving once again that you can’t trust a government report. Not a financial one or otherwise. The result is always pre-determined, and the report is written as desired. Over time this will result in many more unnecessary deaths.
It just amazes me to think that one of the first and most primitive electrical devices to ever exist has been removed from these systems and people have died over what could basically be called a “Knife Switch”.
Those who are always into having the latest and greatest of technology to the point of putting aside common sense and calling all old technology obsolete are truly, IQ delinquents. Those are the ones who watch there televisions because it tells them that they should.
Yes I am confident the cop made a mistake. Your point being...?
“I am sure you are confident that a California state trooper (off duty), simply made a mistake...”
You mean like not just turing the motor off?
So you don’t fly commercial aviation, either, right?