Discussion for article #224340
Keep your hands to yourself. Even a school child knows that. What on earth possessed her to do that?
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It isn’t a very robust system if pressing the “kill” switch crashes the system to the point that it can’t be brought up in reasonable time. Reasonable time is measured in seconds, not hours or days.
This is definitely not ready for real roads. Let’s hope Google’s cars are better set.
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Obviously she is funded by the Taxi cab commission. No we cannot have driverless cars!
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Of course it’s not - this is a prototype. While there would almost certainly be an e-stop button in a production model, there are any number of reasons why a prototype couldn’t be brought back online immediately after emergency shutdown.
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Want to make sure people DO press a button?
Make it a big red button and put the words “DO NOT PRESS” under it.
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Getting hit by Holmes and Norton would stop anyone…
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In her defense, I think she was trying to demonstrate how easy it would be for someone to STOP the car if they had to, which IS a major concern for a automatic car. They should have explicitly warned her not to hit the button if it was going to cause a big problem.
She’s they type who leaves fingerprints in wet paint, because she doesn’t believe the sign. Idiot
Hey, Moe! Look at the button!
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I’m sure more than a few person’s last words were:
“Hey, what does this big red button do?”
One of the funnier (and more cringe-worthy) Challenger jokes I heard (within 5 hours of the disaster IIRC) back in the 80s.
Q: “What were Christa McAuliffe’s last words?”
A: “What does this button do?”
Every supervillain knows you don’t make everything stop with just one button.
She must have thought this was her one and only opportunity to have some real effect on Congress…
Where’s the Video?
You should be able to press any button and any lever without compromising safety, because you know some meth-addled drunk cell-phone-texting idiot and their dog is going to do that at some point. Apparently this was not ready for prime time.
Good on you, E. Holmes-Norton.