[Healeys] Off Topic (sort of)

[Guy R Day]

Well, it was said  in a General Motors 2006 Vauxhall Vectra there were 21 
ECM/ECU's and that car wasn't over-endowed with smarts.  Start looking at 
today's quality cars and I think you'll find 50 is exceeded already.

Guy R Day


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ewald" <
To: "Bob Spidell" <
Cc: "healeylist" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Off Topic (sort of)


> That article is so full of errors, it is a prime example of why computers
> are better at some tasks than people
> 50 to 100 control units in a luxury car?  Name the year, make and model.
> 10M lines of code in a car, 1/4 of what Windows has?  With no video, and 
> the
> audio limited to the key chime, the same request, year, make and model.
> Three mile island a computer problem?  Not according to Wiki "The 
> mechanical
> failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to
> recognize the situation as a loss of coolant
> accident<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_coolant_accident>due to
> inadequate training"
> bottom line, while the computers in cars are no where near perfect, they 
> are
> no where near as bad as this idiot is making them out to be.
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Bob Spidell <> wrote:
>
>> Not a problem in our Healeys:
>>
>>
>> http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/05/techview_cars_and_software_bugs
>>
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