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Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

218 points · 188 comments · llm_nerd

  1. jey · · focus · HN ↗
    Seems wild that they can code and deploy an update of a critical-seeming component in the field like that. I thought such a firmware update would need extensive QA in the lab, along with root causing why this bug slipped through their processes anyway.

    But maybe that's the difference between shipping a controller for F1 versus shipping one for an industrial or consumer product? shrug.

    1. Jean-Papoulos · · focus · HN ↗
      They didn't, it just needed a restart. From the first reports the first car's software genuinely glitched out because of the new track/rain/etc and had to be restarted, the other cars got anti-traction control triggered because going this slow for this long unspools the turbo, which got so bad the detection software made a false positive.
      1. manarth · · focus · HN ↗
        there's no traction control or other driver-assistance aids (ABS etc) in f1 cars
        1. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
          That's what the rules say, anyway. Cheating is part of the game, and @ActuallyVen goes into some of the ways teams have played with the rules.

          <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@actuallyven" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@actuallyven

        2. gpderetta · · focus · HN ↗
          or if it is there, it is definitely, surely, cross my heart, not enabled in prod [1]!

          [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Allegations_of_cheating_during_the_1994_Formula_One_World_Championship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Allegations_of_cheating_during...

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