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Musk: The DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the ATC system

31 pointsby 1y agotwitter.com
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1y agoHN ↗

Some things should not get rapid upgrades. Even at Amazon, which is not some slow-moving dinosaur, there was an understanding that some systems (like auth) were so critical that the risk of breaking something necessitated moving slowly and deliberately.

1y agoHN ↗

How long until this is flagged?

It should be a game by now.

Edit: Flagged and dead in 1 hour!

1y agoHN ↗

One of the least forgiving agencies in which to roll out anything rapidly

1y agoHN ↗

for every change they make, Elon should take a consumer flight

There's no way inexperienced 20 year old programmers should be anywhere near this.

Just a few days ago, the FAA’s primary aircraft safety notification system failed for several hours!

And nothing catastrophic happened...

1y agoHN ↗

Leaving the politics aside,

any HN worthy technical comments on the sanity of moving fast and breaking things when dealing with a control system that overseees one million people aloft (ok, that's globally last I checked) every minute of the day?

1y agoHN ↗

the existing systems deliver the international standards for air traffic management that needs to move in sync for all parties, ATC, Airports, Airlines, Manufacturers and Regulators. Technology suppliers to each of those parties where they differ will need to be involved in anything material.

there are many systems involved to manage different parts of flight, are built to spec and integrated deeply across all the parties

even if the systems are old in some cases, they deliver the agreed standards, so updates need to be agreed via organisations like ICAO or IATA and rolled out via a predictable timeline through a managed change process

this is all integrated with human processes, such as for the flight deck

1y agoHN ↗

This was in case anyone was still talking about something else besides Elon. There was still some conversation about the crash in the MSM, if it's topical he must put himself in the middle of it

1y agoHN ↗

I definitely want the guy that launched the last Starshio rocket flight that exploded all over the Bahamas and also made autopiloting cars to crash all the time to quickly build a system to control ALL aircraft in the country.

He better get on it!