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Originally Posted by pylon
You really want to take that bet?
The computers Nasa uses in their deep space probes, have been operational in some crafts for 35+ years without failure or malfunction. In some of the harshest conditions in the universe.
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You don't even have to go to NASA. I have had Cisco UCS Blades that have run from the day they were commissioned, until they day they were replaced with updated hardware. Redundancy in easily achieved.
Polak is going to be busted, if too many take him up on his wager.
The fact that the automobile industry don't have the equivalent of aviation's TCAS or marine AIS (collision avoidance systems) already has been a function of cost. The technology is getting cheaper, so I'd guess it is only a matter of time.