PS there was a Road&Track article to this effect a couple of issues ago.
The computers in cars are extremely unlikely to encounter any problems.
The digital clocks - maybe (and that's a BIG maybe) - but that is about
it.
Larry
At this exact moment in time 8/27/99 20:13, REwald9535@aol.com made the
profound statement:
>In a message dated 8/27/99 7:57:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>wizardz@maxinter.net writes:
>
>> And guess what people! Many are going to have problems next year
>> with idiot lights that won't turn off (maintainance schedules etc)
>> because of the computer clocks post dating 2000!
>Urban legend alert!!
>I work with new cars all the time in my day job. (technical instructor for
>Volvo) I know of no car electronics system that knows the date. This
>includes the S80 which is probably the most electronically advanced car on
>the road today (18 separate computers all running on a network system, a LAN
>on wheels). Since the cars don't know the date they can't have a Y2K
>problem.
>There wasn't that simple
>Rick Ewald
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
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Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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