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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
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
wheeze
Surely the “subscription airbag” company understands design of safety-critical systems amd would not cut corners for the sake of profit.
okay so bugged firmware update, then
I get frustrated when a game glitches out, but it’s ludicrous that this could happen with an airbag.
You guys have courses for that? I just set CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=Y and go about my day.