Reply to post: Shouldn't they have a 'safe' failure mode?

Don't panic, but a 'computer error' cut the brakes on a San Francisco bus this week

Anonymous Coward
WTF?

Shouldn't they have a 'safe' failure mode?

If the connection is lost it should be seen as the brakes being applied. Then instead of driving wildly with no brakes, it would simply come to a halt in the street and people could safely disembark. As opposed to becoming a real-life remake of Sandra Bullock's worst movie.

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