Comments on Farm Fresh Meat: You Cannot See Through Trees And Walls

I suggest you write to Jim Graham about the softwa...

2009-07-04T21:41:56.088+01:00

I suggest you write to Jim Graham about the software issue. He is demanding that all 4000 switches be replaced. While that may be appropriate, smarter software provides an additional fail-safe which should be a higher priority. Also, it's a lot cheaper.

My comment was just a spoof of UnsuckDCMetro. :)

2009-06-26T20:18:59.778+01:00

My comment was just a spoof of UnsuckDCMetro. :)

Or alternatively, design some software that isn...

2009-06-26T17:53:22.472+01:00

Or alternatively, design some software that isn't so simple that it is perfectly content with the idea that a train might vanish, just because of some malfunctioning sensors.

Boggles my mind. It shouldn't matter if every sensor in the whole system failed simultaneously. If a train is at point A, moving at X miles per hour, and fails to arrive at point B in a certiain time, FREAK THE HELL OUT!!

No, instead, apparently, it just continues on its merry way, content that train A just vanished from thin air.

Really. This is not rocket science. There is no reason whatsoever why the system shouldn't be smart enough to prevent a crash even in the event of catastrophic failure of the sensor relays.

Well, if Metro wasn't interested in killing th...

2009-06-26T17:48:21.748+01:00

Well, if Metro wasn't interested in killing their customers, they'd've chopped down the trees and torn down the buildings.