[ale] [TOTALLY OT] road trains - what I've been squawking we need for years - fewer drivers!
Tom Freeman
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Tue Jan 18 17:23:30 EST 2011
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Preston Boyington
>> <preston.lists at gmail.com <mailto:preston.lists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> <snipped>
>> "Another story in our continuing series, the 16 deaths today in a 50 mph
>> construction zone along Interstate 285 were apparently the result of a
>> passenger plugging in an iPod after the vehicle wirelessly updated the
>> motion control system. It is thought that the user was trying the
>> latest kernel version in an attempt to get the audio to play correctly
>> while the communication system was in operation..."
>>
>>
>> "In other news, DHS is reporting that transport computer systems are
>> still down across the nation as the 'drive-by sql-injection attacks'
>> continued after the link between Microsoft, Oracle and the nations
>> interstate road driving software was revealed to have a security flaw.
>> The Linux Foundation, adamantly denying any involvement in the current
>> attacks, was warning of poor design during the bidding phase of the
>> project and is now suing the Federal government for locking them out of
>> the bidding claiming 'unfair regulations that appeared at the last
>> minute prevent them from qualifying for submission'.
>>
>> Neither Microsoft nor Oracle had a comment prepared as their email was
>> down as well."
>
> I did think that the sensor streams to detect road paint and road edges
> in cars was an interesting idea (another article I read somewhere).
> Makes me wonder if it detects you sleepily drifting between the lanes if
> it'll roll the windows down and turn the radio up.
>
The windows and radio might help. For about 2 minutes. If you are weaving
between the lines it might be time to get off the road for a while.
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