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"...and the trains have needed to be rebooted." Nope. No thanks. Do not need my trains to be so "smart" that the only way to get them working properly is CTL-A

• vinceguidry 12y ago
  Gives a new meaning to the term, "crash-only software".
• pilif 12y ago
  I once had the opportunity to drive along in a locomotive here in Switzerland. En route, the computer has detected an issue in the engine, has restarted the whole machine and came back up fine. This happened while driving at 160 km/h and if we had not seen the messages on the screen, nobody would have known. That was seriously impressive and I wish I could do something like this. Not only did it properly detect the failure, it also rebooted and then came up correctly and still was aware of all the state needed to drive on. If software works like that, I can live with it being used more and more.
  • mike_hearn 12y ago
    I'm not sure if that's impressive, or if I should be scared that trains randomly reboot their engines whilst in motion and nobody seems to care or investigate?! What kind of issue can be resolved by rebooting an engine, exactly?