On Apr 1, 4:42 pm, "Gary" wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
Computers are completely reliable within the limits of their software.

Absolutely untrue. You've never heard of a hardware failure?

What he said is absolutely true, from the standpoint that as long as
software is only presented with events the programmer anticipated and
tested for, it's reliable. Beyond that, you're in test pilot
territory.

It's like some of the first FBW software, which didn't have any code
for unusual attitude recovery. Or, heh-heh, like that recent military
flight which crossed the date line and had most of their computers
stop working.

In any case, I suspect the thread is prodded a bit from all those NASA
future air scenarios where we get into a robot air taxi at your local
airport. Not me, not for a while!

Kev