Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by AmericanChopper on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:29PM (#36413227)

The use of a wireless input is a bit suspect, but the headline seems rather sensational to me. What’s wrong with using an inexpensive logitech component? The critical systems in my car are filled with cheap off-the-shelf components.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by philistine on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:57PM (#36413423)

> cheap off-the-shelf components

Your car is filled with cheap off-the-shelf *car* components. There's far more scrutiny given to car parts, even though they're cheap stuff.

But to get back to the controller, while it's not necessarily the worst problem, it is emblematic. That's why people reduce it to that. It signifies immediately what kind of company they were. Emphasis on were.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by AmericanChopper on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:12PM (#36413531)

I think the claim that you’re getting better safety outcomes from a $2 ISO26262 IC over a $30 ISO9001 piece of consumer hardware is a bit spurious in this case. Especially since the operator could just replace the consumer hardware input device with a spare in a few seconds if they ever needed to. I don’t think this is emblematic of the problems with this company at all, because this specific complaint is simply sensationalised and overblown.

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