[ale] [TOTALLY OT] road trains - what I've been squawking we need for years - fewer drivers!

[preston.lists at gmail.com (Preston Boyington)]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Preston Boyington 
> <preston.lists at gmail.com <mailto:preston.lists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     <snipped>
>     "Another story in our continuing series, the 16 deaths today in a 50 mph
>     construction zone along Interstate 285 were apparently the result of a
>     passenger plugging in an iPod after the vehicle wirelessly updated the
>     motion control system.  It is thought that the user was trying the
>     latest kernel version in an attempt to get the audio to play correctly
>     while the communication system was in operation..."
> 
> 
> "In other news, DHS is reporting that transport computer systems are 
> still down across the nation as the 'drive-by sql-injection attacks' 
> continued after the link between Microsoft, Oracle and the nations 
> interstate road driving software was revealed to have a security flaw. 
> The Linux Foundation, adamantly denying any involvement in the current 
> attacks, was warning of poor design during the bidding phase of the 
> project and is now suing the Federal government for locking them out of 
> the bidding claiming 'unfair regulations that appeared at the last 
> minute prevent them from qualifying for submission'.
> 
> Neither Microsoft nor Oracle had a comment prepared as their email was 
> down as well."

I did think that the sensor streams to detect road paint and road edges 
in cars was an interesting idea (another article I read somewhere). 
Makes me wonder if it detects you sleepily drifting between the lanes if 
it'll roll the windows down and turn the radio up.