Is it More Palatable to Blame Computers When Things go Wrong?

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Re: Is it More Palatable to Blame Computers When Things go Wrong?

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bonjon1979 wrote:
27 Mar 2018, 10:01
I think that they failed to take into account that once you cross the safety car line you can go as quick as you like to the pits. Likewise, when you leave the pits you don’t have to obey vsc rules until safety car line. The 2 seconds needed were made up there. Human error.
It’s so rare that I’m right so I’ll leave this here

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Mr. Fahrenheit
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Software is only ever as good as the engineer(s) who wrote it.

Software testing happens before and after release; how much you do before dictates how little it fails in the wild. The fact that there's a bug suggests inadequate testing of real-world scenarios before using it in anger. I wouldn't crucify the lady/gentleman that wrote it - there's a process that needs tightened up to avoid these cases slipping through the net in testing. My bet is the glitch was patched before end-of-day Monday and it'll never happen again.

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Mr. Fahrenheit wrote:
29 Mar 2018, 11:07
Software is only ever as good as the engineer(s) who wrote it.

Software testing happens before and after release; how much you do before dictates how little it fails in the wild. The fact that there's a bug suggests inadequate testing of real-world scenarios before using it in anger. I wouldn't crucify the lady/gentleman that wrote it - there's a process that needs tightened up to avoid these cases slipping through the net in testing. My bet is the glitch was patched before end-of-day Monday and it'll never happen again.
To be fair, I'm also not sure the exact location of the safety car lines can be known and neither can the speed a driver may be travelling at to get into the pits. You'd think they'd air on the side of caution though and make it as if the driver is going at normal racing speed and the safety lines as generous as possible to the pitting car. They should've seen this.

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Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.