Mrkawfee@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosionarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkInfamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosionarstechnica.comMrkawfee@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前message-square42linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelefaucet@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 年前Srsly, it’s clear these guys didnt play video games with controllers growing up. Could you imagine getting left drift down there!? They should have had an entirely redundant system on there; the controller being the first item on the list and from there to the motors.
minus-squaregedhrel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 年前You joke, but watch this: https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.
minus-squarelefaucet@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前Jebus, I cant believe the engineers would allow them to be plugged wrong. It’s so easy to design that mistake away
Srsly, it’s clear these guys didnt play video games with controllers growing up. Could you imagine getting left drift down there!?
They should have had an entirely redundant system on there; the controller being the first item on the list and from there to the motors.
You joke, but watch this:
https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic
from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.
Jebus, I cant believe the engineers would allow them to be plugged wrong. It’s so easy to design that mistake away