I have a degree in Electrical and Computer engineering. Know what, neither that nor CS are directly applicable to traffic control. That seems to be the purview of unban planners and CivEs. Letâ(TM)s skip the ad hominem comments please.

I didnâ(TM)t say proper signage would fix everything. The OP was about a chronic problem with autonomous vehicles entering a dead end street. There are always going to be cases where things change quickly and require cones or someone standing in the middle of the street directing traffic, which I have had to do.

I almost mentioned in my original post that proper signage is not the end all, be all fix. There will always be edge cases or short term traffic redirection that may require autonomous cars to recognize things like cones. A detour sign could have a code with the detour route in it to assist in temporary road closures.

I am only stating updated traffic control signs to deal with new tech seems to be a reasonable approach.

Traffic control, including what vehicles can use which roads is a solved problem. There are standard road signs that tell human drivers the rules of the road. Car companies have spent a fortune in developing computer vision algorithms to read signs meant for humans.

As semi and fully autonomous vehicles become more prevalent, traffic control signage should adapt. The addition of QR codes to existing signs, or additional signs, that specify rules of the road seems to be an obvious (to me anyway) progression. The codes can provide traffic control information, including no autonomous vehicles operation this road, this road between (time) and (time) etc.

But what about people defacing the codes to give improper directions? Well, what about people who deface current signs that people read? Removing traffic control signs, altering the speed limit, is already a thing, and there are legal consequences for doing so.

Technology has progressed, signage just needs to catch up.

Yes, you can. I do exactly this when I set up new, preloaded, Win11 boxes at work. I have a bogus M$ account I use just to get the machine configured. First thing I do after getting the machine to a desktop is create a local admin account and nuke the online one.

When I got my first computer that supported a mouse, Apple II GS, for some bizarre reason my mother used it tail down so I did the same. I drove both axis inverted all the way through college and well into my first real job before I relearned how to use a mouse like a normal person. I remember having a horrid time of it for 2-3 weeks before my brain finally flipped over.

ââ(TM)Apple Forever ââ(TM) silly slashdot

Quite possibly. Not all donated whole blood is transfused that way. It is frequently separated into red cells, platelets, and plasma.

Also, if a person needs a blood transfusion, a few extra PFAS is likely the least of their worries. The donations of four people saved my life once. I was in no shape to complain.

I must be almost PFAS free. I donate every whole blood every 8 weeks.

I am a 6 gallon donar to date. I even have a Red Cross tattoo on my right arm to track my gallons.

How many lives have you potentially saved? Everyone who is eligible should donate. :)

1 SHU equal approximately 39.29 linguine. I propose we adjust the length of the SGU to be 5.6M, or exactly 40 linguine for ease of conversion and consistency with existing standards.

Ack

https://proton.me/mail/security

Their products are up en source and have been audited

Synology NAS boxen can be set up in a HA pair. It isn't even horribly hard. A beefy UPS sounds like another need. We have one setup to maintain the servers, network gear, and phones for about 45min. Internet loss is still a thing though.

Byte me ;)

to the 4digit ID

I disagree. A fail safe is much better than a hard crash, particularly if it causes a crash loop. A fail safe can allow for manual recovery and processing while the system is still up and moving flights around, albeit slowly.

If the system had hard crashed the primary and backup, recovery would likely have required dump analysis before the system could have been brought back up to any sort of functional state in production.

I would also argue failing safe is highly preferable to a hard crash that may leave an entire system in an unknown, and potentially dangerous state. Iâ(TM)m pretty sure being unable to communicate is much better than a plane crash.

Failing at all due to failure to sanitize input is always a Bad Thing(TM). However missing a real edge case is almost unavailable. This seems like something that should have been caught though.

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Yeah yeah. I know, and I know they will never do anything about it. Now get off my lawn ;)

WTH canâ(TM)t someone be bothered to fix the back end of slashdot to handle unicode properly? I mean come on. It isnâ(TM)t like this has been a known bug for 30 years, oh wait..

The system didnâ(TM)t crash. If you even read the summary all the way through you would see the system failed safe. The system got an input it couldnâ(TM)t deal with and âoe⦠suspending automatic processing âto ensure that no incorrect safety-related information could be presented to an air traffic controller or impact the rest of the air traffic systemâ(TM)..â

Everyone should want something as critical as flight routing to fail into a safe mode so planes donâ(TM)t crash into each other.

Was the failure mode a huge inconvenience? Sure. Still better than being dead.

Could the incorrect input have been handled better? Probably. Now that an edge case has been found, people can investigate the reason that type of input caused a full halt of automatic processing, and work on dealing with inputs of that nature and dealing with them in a way that doesnâ(TM)t cancel tons of flights.

Iâ(TM)d still rather be stuck in some airport for 2 days than being a smudge in the ground after a catastrophic air crash.