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Tweet: Okay I thought this one straight up has to be hyperbole, there’s no way they’d make an airbag that checks your subscription status or it doesn’t go off, but it’s fucking TRUE: “Without the subscription service from In&Motion, the airbag system is non-operational.”
Quoted tweet: Reminder that Klim makes a motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription service and if you don’t pay and get in a wreck it just doesn’t go off
Google results screenshot: Ai-1 Airbag Vest (Klim) - Choose from $12/month or $120/year subscription options, which include…
Original tweet dated 30th April 2021
This is absolutely going to get somebody who had a subscription killed because the airbag couldn’t connect to the service to check in the 1/4 of a second it had to go off.
that’s absurd, it probably checks in periodically when it’s in range of service and then decides whether to brick itself. it’s going to get somebody who had a subscription killed because of a database error or bugged firmware update.
Okay, so apparently there’s an indicator light at the beginning that tells you if your subscription is active. Presumably they have at least one person who passed their realtime programming course and it’s designed around making sure you never give off a green light unless the suit is ready to inflate.
But a company that charges a subscription for airbag deployment may be too cheap to hire actual software engineers lmao
Surely the “subscription airbag” company understands design of safety-critical systems amd would not cut corners for the sake of profit.
You guys have courses for that? I just set CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=Y and go about my day.
wheeze
you say it’s absurd but you haven’t met the techbros I have
i have but i was pretending not to for the purposes of the bit to play with some other failure modes, in truth i acknowledge that the possibility of that is not so absurd
Honestly just having the airbag be electronic is dangerous enough. Imagine dying because you forgot to plug your airbag in a couple days in a row and the battery was out.
Screaming “siri renew my airbag subscription!” as I’m flying through the air