Re:Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB
by wyldfire on Thursday April 12, 2018 @04:21PM
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> Critical functionality in a car would rarely if ever involve non-deterministic delays. Furthermore, the OS itself (if there even is one) would be a real-time OS.
It might not be safety-design-critical to have a record of the hand-presence sensor with high resolution, merely high enough resolution for safe operation of the vehicle.
Flushing these records to storage is an independent function for the sake of service/support/maintenance and is likely not a regulatory requirement. Though regulatory agencies are bound to be interested in the data.
You are vastly overestimating things here.
Critical functionality in a car would rarely if ever involve non-deterministic delays. Furthermore, the OS itself (if there even is one) would be a real-time OS.
But even if we assume such delays are present in a Tesla steering wheel monitoring task, absolutely none of the delays you listed would approach anything near a second...