Comments on: The Anxiety of Digital: Cars, Power Grid Up Next http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/ Sun, 27 May 2012 20:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Toyota Finds Driver Error (Not Software) to Blame in Some Runaway Cars http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30435 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:58:29 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30435 [...] can fatally pin down the gas pedal. And it’s likely only the beginning of a larger wave of anxiety over computer- and software-dependent cars — especially as electric cars roll out in the next few years with even more reliance on [...]

]]> By: KenlFory http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30434 Mon, 17 May 2010 02:44:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30434 Niksmepe say: At all I do not know, that here and to tell that it is possible

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]]> By: Hacking the Car: Next-Gen Vehicles at the Mercy of Cyber Attacks http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30433 Fri, 14 May 2010 22:23:10 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30433 [...] has maintained a relatively strong focus on safety when it comes to introducing new software (Toyota’s recent software glitches notwithstanding), it’s questionable whether car makers have anticipated “the [...]

]]> By: How to Improve Vehicle Software: Open Up the Data, Dive In http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30432 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:01:28 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30432 [...] string of recent events has helped to focus a strong, and not too favorable light on the growing amount of software embedded in the cars we drive: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak [...]

]]> By: How Toyota’s Prius Troubles Will Shape the Green Car Market | AniChaos.com http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30431 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:29:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30431 [...] Regulators are only beginning to look into the most recent incidents. But initial reports suggest the problems may not have been linked to a floor mat that pinned down the gas pedal in other Priuses and prompted Toyota to issue a recall last year for 2004-2009 models of the hybrid. Last month, when problems surfaced with the regenerative braking system of some 2010 Prius models, Toyota attributed them to a software glitch. [...]

]]> By: How Toyota’s Prius Troubles Will Shape the Green Car Market http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30430 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:43:00 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30430 [...] Regulators are only beginning to look into the most recent incidents. But initial reports suggest the problems may not have been linked to a floor mat that pinned down the gas pedal in other Priuses and prompted Toyota to issue a recall last year for 2004-2009 models of the hybrid. Last month, when problems surfaced with the regenerative braking system of some 2010 Prius models, Toyota attributed them to a software glitch. [...]

]]> By: Earth2Tech Week in Review http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30429 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:26:56 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30429 [...] The Anxiety of Digital: Cars, Power Grid Up Next: Both vehicles and the power grid are undergoing massive transformations involving IT. Get ready for that good ol’ digital anxiety. GA_googleFillSlot("earth2tech_ros_post_footer"); [...]

]]> By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30428 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:24:25 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30428 @Anita, Thanks for weighing. To clarify in my article, when I wrote “I’ve had to call customer service several times in order to restart the computing system (kinda like rebooting a computer) to get the car to work properly.” It was particularly when turning on the Smart car — not when driving it. So it wasn’t a safety issues, but a convenience issue.

]]> By: Anthony W. http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30427 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:24:48 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30427 I think this is a valid concern. Most of those old systems that we’ve lived with weren’t as complex, and have been well tested.

It’s not the fact that these life-critical objects are driven by software, it comes down to how they’re tested in real life situations.

If software and hardware designers do a good job in creating multiple backup, checkup and redundancy systems, then the chance of a problem causing a fatal incident are greatly reduced.

Anthony.

]]> By: Kathryn http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-anxiety-of-digital-cars-power-grid-up-next/#comment-30426 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:27:57 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=50852#comment-30426 One more clarification: There were problems with the voting machines, but they seemed to be purposely in place as opposed to actual bugs with the code. I find it hard to believe that there was a bug that only decreased the counts of democrats and overstated only republicans – no other candidates. That is more like a conspiracy theory than a real software issue.

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