GM 1500/Tahoe recall. Not good.
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2014/05/recall-alert-2014-chevrolet-silverado-and-gmc-sierra-2015-chevrolet-tahoe.html Fortunately it's not that many.
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I attribute these types of 'flaws' to 'bean counter management' and 'green/red light designers'
When at SunLabs we noticed a change in the summer interns from the likes of MIT,
Harvard, Stanford, UC, etc...they were brilliant on paper and the computer, but
they lacked a 'soul' or 'feel' for whatever they were tasked to help R&D
Key was they they were whizzes on the CAD systems and simulation testing...but
didn't have a feel for whatever the computer reported as issues (vectors)
Once they 'fixed' the vectors and got a green light...they were done...or so they
thought
Missing is the gut feel that came from the slide rule days.
The other physicists and I coined them as 'Green/Red light designers'
These young designers about to graduate to become industries next gen engineers
was frightening, as they were so into being in a 'box' that it was scary. Always
thought this kind of stuff was coming and going to become the norm...which it has
Not just GM, but all of them. Including off shore designers...
Doubly scary is that their management likewise no longer has any feel for what
they manage...and...most of them no longer come up the ranks, but straight out
of business school where they are taught 'bottom line' metrics. They no longer
manage their 'product' and betcha if you ask them, they won't be able to tell
in detail what their 'product' is...
When at SunLabs we noticed a change in the summer interns from the likes of MIT,
Harvard, Stanford, UC, etc...they were brilliant on paper and the computer, but
they lacked a 'soul' or 'feel' for whatever they were tasked to help R&D
Key was they they were whizzes on the CAD systems and simulation testing...but
didn't have a feel for whatever the computer reported as issues (vectors)
Once they 'fixed' the vectors and got a green light...they were done...or so they
thought
Missing is the gut feel that came from the slide rule days.
The other physicists and I coined them as 'Green/Red light designers'
These young designers about to graduate to become industries next gen engineers
was frightening, as they were so into being in a 'box' that it was scary. Always
thought this kind of stuff was coming and going to become the norm...which it has
Not just GM, but all of them. Including off shore designers...
Doubly scary is that their management likewise no longer has any feel for what
they manage...and...most of them no longer come up the ranks, but straight out
of business school where they are taught 'bottom line' metrics. They no longer
manage their 'product' and betcha if you ask them, they won't be able to tell
in detail what their 'product' is...
