Re:Trains were designed to break down after third-party repa...
by TomaszZielinski on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:39AM
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What I meant is that I feel the trust among parties might go down industry-wide.
In a sense you admitted that:
> (...)I can tighten the screws on manufacturers in the next round of train buying(...)
But then I can see it might help change things for the better across the board, as you nicely described. Thanks for the illuminating comment!
No, pretty much just the manufacturer loses. Short term the operator loses, but I'm sure that the courts will award damages.
For me, this incident is a welcome argument with which I can tighten the screws on manufacturers in the next round of train buying (at minimum, they will agree to heavy contractual fines for anything like this; at best I get full source code for every train).
For too long the only priority in OT was safety (fine in the 80ies, but the second you integrate an IP stack that posture doesn't work anymore). This has been changing in the industry thanks to EU-regulation; this incident will accelerate the change.