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After Ratings Drop, Ford Reworks Touch Screens

3 pointsby haroldabout 13 years ago

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tosseraccountabout 13 years ago
There's at least 2 problems here:<p>1) engineering 2) quality control<p>How Ford engineering could make a system that reboots while driving and how quality control testing could not detect it is alarming. I smell the accounting department: "If we go with Microsoft, we'll be safe". When I think "embedded system", I don't think "Microsoft". When I do think of "Microsoft", I think "sluggish user experience and eventual system lockup". (admittedly I don't have to reboot as often with Windows as back in the Windows 98 days).