Now we are into cars and planes

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Thu Mar 8 13:07:53 2001

At 01:10 PM 3/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>I know McDonnell-Douglas was testing the same thing for fighter planes.
>>Most of the time they swap boards. They have developed test benches that
>>test the boards. I remember that computers were swapped in the planes and
>>then off you go. How would you survive a disk crash? It's interesting
>>that were haven't yet heard of any computer virus problems with cars and
>>planes.
>
>It's a matter of economics. It's a LOT cheaper to swap the boards in the
>field than to troubleshoot them. Just send the boards to DEPO where they are
>better equiped (skills and tools) to do component level repair.

Besides, it is a great economic model for the dealer/manufacturer:

A - Customer brings in broken car
B - Dealer swaps computer and charges customer $1000
C - Manufacturer gets trade in computer which is likely still good
D - Customer's problem comes back, goto A

--tom
Received on Thu Mar 08 2001 - 13:07:53 GMT