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Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service

Posted by Soulskill on from the ay-carumba dept.

linuxwrangler writes "San Francisco Bay Area commuters awoke this morning to the news that BART, the major regional transit system which carries hundreds of thousands of daily riders, was entirely shut down due to a computer failure. Commuters stood stranded at stations and traffic backed up as residents took to the roads. The system has returned to service and BART says the outage resulted from a botched software upgrade."

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  1. What else would you expect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From a transit authority born from a constellation of institutions based on a bunch of "educated" people all telling each other they are right. The fact is most of todays institutions are completely out of touch with reality.

    a) the medical profession
    b) the legal profession
    c) academia
    d) state and federal law enforcement
    e) etc...

    Everything from dietary recommendation which have led to an increase in diabetes and cancer, recommending yet more carbs and less fats, etc. Most doctors couldnt find their way through a human metabolic map. Anyway let them build a robotic army, we will see who ends up in control of them.

    my .0..1 BTC ;)