Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by raverbashing on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:10PM (#11490702)

> auto-pilot in a plane needs to be 100% reliable, or everyone dies

Actually it is much more simpler than a self-driving car. And if there is a problem it disengages.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by vacri on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:34PM (#11492426)

Autopilot in a plane usually doesn't involve autonavigation, whereas autodrive in a car generally requires navigation. Autodrive in a car without navigation is basically 'cruise control'.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by dreamcompiler on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:40PM (#11493260)

'Cruise control' does not (at least it didn't until very recently) even attempt to avoid collisions with neighboring cars or keep the car in its lane. Even without navigation, autodrive in a car is a considerably more difficult problem than either cruise control or autopilot in a plane.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by vacri on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:15PM (#11493891)

My point is that 'autopilot' is more like 'cruise control', and except in advanced cases, is not analagous to 'autodrive'.

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