Tag Archives: automobiles
Safety vs Convenience and Cybersecurity
July 30, 2018 – 6:00 am
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If you have driven a late-model road vehicle recently, there were several innovations that immediately confronted you. The first is the ignition… no longer a key, but now a fob and an on-off push-button starter rather than key twist. Another is the gear selection … while some manufacturers…
Negative Testing Revisited – Vehicle Control Systems (Part 2)
February 22, 2010 – 6:00 am
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If I were to attribute the current issues with automobile systems to a specific cause, I would say that car and truck manufacturers have been affected by a major transition from mechanical engineering to software and systems engineering. However, it does not appear that they have changed their…