Stop & Go

"The computer can fail, send an inappropriate signal and boom, you go...
And if the computer sends an inappropriate signal and the throttle opens and the car runs away, that's a software glitch."

- Forrest Folck, 

motor vehicle forensic investigator

"So now, after decades invested in metrics-driven verification, formal verification, and methodology management, we find that our chips don't work as expected because the software is still being 'verified' by feeding it test cases  until the schedule expires.  And we find that our cars run into things for the same reason,  and the press of course will blame the problem on 'electronics.'"

- Ron Wilson,

EDN Executive Editor

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