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

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by pyre on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:27PM (#11493202)

A stroke or heart attack while driving has (possibly) nationwide or worldwide reach? I somehow don't think you understand what I'm getting at.

A "Perfect Storm" of bugs could cause a systemic failure that has the possibility to affect all cars everywhere (well, probably limited to a single car-maker / model / etc). This has the possibility to affect millions. Claiming that a stroke or heart attack while driving has the possibility of a similar scope / reach doesn't make sense.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by Bjartr on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:12PM (#11537361)

AFAIK, because most new cars today are pretty close to drive-by-wire anyway, there's little if anything that exists today that precludes such a perfect storm scenario from occurring with the ECUs in human driven vehicles today other than whatever internal processes manufacturers happen to have in place to avoid ECU bugs.

So in that respect, the introduction of self-driving-cars won't necessarily make such events more likely.

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