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What about things like Toyota's unintended acceleration debacle? Just because driver's actions count for a lot of accidents doesn't mean that car manufacturer
by rtpg 13y ago
What about things like Toyota's unintended acceleration debacle?
Just because driver's actions count for a lot of accidents doesn't mean that car manufacturer are absolved from doing anything. Considering how many accidents there are, cars need to be designed with that in mind, much like how touch keyboards work around our fat finger inputs.
User error is a design consideration (or else we wouldn't have undo commands in all of our software).
- Dylan16807 13y agoThe Toyota debacle where they had buggy code but no evidence of anything other than driver error?
- joncrocks 13y agohttp://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319897 http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319897 http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer-firmware--Bad-design-and-its-consequences http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
- Dylan16807 13y agoThat doesn't contradict what I said. Even if the code failed in some situations I would comfortably bet that most cases were user error.