Comment Re:False choice: Electronic != unreliable (Score 1) 765
But fly-by-wire airliners, military radios, targeting systems, medical implants, even Internet backbone routers all have absurdly high reliability stats and are all based on electronics, sensors and firmware.
Except those devices don't have to deal with the substantial shock/impact/vibration/temperature realities that a firearm would. That sort of an environment is deadly to electronics. Military systems generally have pretty wide operating temperature ranges, but the likes of medical devices and backbone routers have a pretty narrow operating range.
...And that's *before* we consider the implications for the batteries.