GM trying to keep you from modding your vehicle
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Unless their software folks, systems folks, etc...especially management understand
robotics...there is a HUGE safety issue, IMHO
Example is on the largest robots in the world, circa 1980's, had a HUGE argument
with software folks. Even though I was a partner of the startup.
They wanted to remove all of the RED Mushroom Head EMERGENCY STOP buttons...because
they would write that into all of the software (OS, apps, layers and layers, etc)
The majority owner almost went that way, until these same software departments
were trying for the first to control the +500,000 lb robot from the SF Bayarea
to Alabama where the steel mill was. Only one of these monster robots
Command they thought they sent was 'move 4,000 clicks south'...what the robot
heard was 'move 400,000 clicks south'...
At 25Ft/second/second it smashed into the 5,000 lb bumper stop. That bumper stop
blew up, showered the crew and knocked down three guys by both the blast and shower
of rubber bits
No cable, no fiber, etc from SF area to Alabama...anyone remember a 'Watts line' ?
What regular software folks don't understand is that when a computer goes
bonkers...there is *NO* way the computer can self stop. Sure redundant systems
but not on those things...to expensive...does our vehicles have a redundant system?
The level of safety from that old career in industrial controls is missing
in automotive vehicle computing...or think that is the case and hope they
did hire some industrial *CONTROLS & SYSTEMS* engineers
robotics...there is a HUGE safety issue, IMHO
Example is on the largest robots in the world, circa 1980's, had a HUGE argument
with software folks. Even though I was a partner of the startup.
They wanted to remove all of the RED Mushroom Head EMERGENCY STOP buttons...because
they would write that into all of the software (OS, apps, layers and layers, etc)
The majority owner almost went that way, until these same software departments
were trying for the first to control the +500,000 lb robot from the SF Bayarea
to Alabama where the steel mill was. Only one of these monster robots
Command they thought they sent was 'move 4,000 clicks south'...what the robot
heard was 'move 400,000 clicks south'...
At 25Ft/second/second it smashed into the 5,000 lb bumper stop. That bumper stop
blew up, showered the crew and knocked down three guys by both the blast and shower
of rubber bits
No cable, no fiber, etc from SF area to Alabama...anyone remember a 'Watts line' ?
What regular software folks don't understand is that when a computer goes
bonkers...there is *NO* way the computer can self stop. Sure redundant systems
but not on those things...to expensive...does our vehicles have a redundant system?
The level of safety from that old career in industrial controls is missing
in automotive vehicle computing...or think that is the case and hope they
did hire some industrial *CONTROLS & SYSTEMS* engineers
