Its one thing to make a joke in front of the families of those lost in the accident, but to make jokes around people with no direct connection really doesn't do any harm.
To answer your question though, they were common in the schools all through central Florida.
You aren't going to absorb it in any useful amount, you have to spread it. The energy HAS to go somewhere.
People aren't really thrown back, they are knocked off balance because they weren't prepared for the energy imparted on them. If getting shot actually 'knocked you back' it would do the same to the person firing.
Body armor just helps spread the force across a larger area. Your body is pretty damn resilient, but when you rich the breaking point it just falls apart. Body armor tries to prevent it from reaching that breaking point by taking say (totally making numbers up here, I have no idea what the real values are) 2500 pounds of force in a 1/4" area and spreading it across say 10 inches of surface area, NOW you've got something that while it'll hurt like hell, won't actually kill you.
the crumple zone decelerates the car from 65MPH - 0MPH in the distance represented by the zone
This isnt entirely correct.
The crumple zone will be fully collapsed in many cases well before you stop moving. The remaining energy is absorbed elsewhere. The cabin has to be designed strong as if it collapsed it'd be just as deadly. The other problem is that the crumple zone works well to start with, and then becomes useless quickly. Its great for the first part of a highspeed impact, but the energy it absorbs before it fails can be only the initial part of the impact. As the structure gets further along its failure mode its ability to absorb energy gets lower and lower, rapidly.
Crumple zones can be greatly improved by spreading out the slowdown period and making it consistent rather than falling off rapidly very soon after the initial impact.
Thats what this can help to do, in theory anyway.
I certainly wouldn't recommend getting rid of airbags anyway. Crumple zones may help to slow the car down, but the human body STILL has to slowdown as well.
The biggest problem is that the body can't withstand all that deceleration on the limited points of contact that something like a seat belt provides.
An airbag provides a contact area across your entire face and chest in some cases, so rather than your forhead smacking the steering wheel or windshield, it smacks a much softer surface of the airbag, at the initial contact points, like say your nose, you sink into it, and the pressure across your face and body increase as more of your body pushes into it, spreading the load equally across all surfaces, keeping the load at any one point MUCH lower.
Example: A shotgun shell loaded with buckshot shot at a person from say 20 feet will certainly break the skin and damage internal organs. Put a bean bag in it, use the same load in the shell, and you end up with a really bad bruise rather than hamburger for a chest.
Example 2: Put an egg on the counter, smack it with a fork, relatively lightly, it will crack. Now put it in your hand and squeeze it equally on all parts, you won't break it. If you do, its because you applied the pressure unequally, not because of the amount of pressure you applied.
Surviving crashes is more about limiting the pressure on any given point of your body at any given time. You HAVE to dissipate ALL of the energy in your body, that you can't get around. The key to survival is to keep the PSI at any given point on your body at any given point in time to within limits that the body can withstand without permanent injuries, or at least without the injuries being fatal.
No single solution is 'the right way to do it', the more methods you have to dissipate the force across as much of the mass at the same time so everything shares it equally, the better chance you have to survive. You could run your car into a solid wall at 100mph and not have any real damage IF you could apply an equal stopping force to EVERY bit of mass in the equation.
If you look at all the things used to help in accidents, its all about spreading the load across everything, not ignoring it or trying to have any one thing absorb it all.
I know a lot of middle aged people who own portable systems. Admittedly, they are usually the parents of kids who own powerful consoles.
I can think of at least 3 single moms that love their portables for just sitting down and relaxing during work breaks or when they get home to some gaming. They aren't hardcore gamers, but certainly do game.
Interestingly enough, I don't think any of them own cell phones.
I have no problem getting hired at large companies and government organizations in the US.
If you don't show them certain things they don't think about them, as we've established, HR isn't the brightest bunch. If you aren't smart enough to get by them, its probably in the companies best interests that you don't.
SSD's aren't going to be cheap soon, they have enough advantages over rust that they'll be an overpriced alternative until we stop using rust completely, which is still some time off.
You'll probably never buy a new 300G SSD for 200. You might buy one of a much larger size for $200 because by the time it happens we'll be using MUCH larger drives.
It's sad that jailbreaking is now considered normal by so many.
If by so many, you mean a tiny percentage of users, which doesn't even include all 'geeks' then... sure, its normal for many.
Reality is though, I can think of about 10 iPhone users I know right this instant, none of which have jailbroken their phones other than myself. Most of those 10 are geeks as well.
To take that a step further, I don't jailbreak anymore, its not worth the effort for little to no value. I don't care about anything that jailbreaking requires.
I don't care about VoIP over 3g, its a phone, I can just make a phone call.
I don't care about background apps, its a phone. I don't need an instant messenger running, I can get phone calls and text messages already.
I don't care about sim unlocks, I like visual voicemail and I'm an AT&T subscriber anyway. They might 'suck' but so do all the others in one way or another.
Jailbreaking really isn't that popular, contrary to the popular belief here. Geeks are rarely ever realistically connected to the rest of the world.
No, the people you see ranting are the ones who don't have any ideas or ability to do anything useful with it.
The people with stuff to do on it are writing apps so they'll be ready when the time comes for it to hit the shelves.
For every bad review (of anything, computer related or anything else like cars or restuarnts) there are 100 people with a good experience. People who are happy just enjoy it, people who are pissed off vent on forums or review sites.
This is why you can't use something like CitySearch to get reviews of a business, all you'll see are bad reviews and maybe one or two good ones from the few people that read all the bad ones, went anyway, and then felt the need to set the record straight for others to enjoy it.
Cycle accurate is unneeded. Its a multitasking OS (even if its doesn't let a developer do so), you have no control over when you get cycles on the real hardware, the emulator doesn't need to be and its unlikely you could tell the difference even if it were.
You need that kind of emulation when you're writing an OS, when writing something on top of the OS without direct hardware access, you don't.
If you can afford these devices to 'tinker with', the $100 isn't something you'll notice missing once a year. Thats one expensive date. Or a day at an amusement park with one person.
$100/year is a trivial cost, and its one you only have to pay AFTER you've already exhausted what you can do in the simulator and are sure you're ready to do it on real hardware.
If you're tinkering with your PC, you are in effect tinkering with a kit you bought. You might not have bought the PC specifically for tinkering, but you did buy it.
If you don't recognize how much more it is to develop for an OS with hundreds of layers of abstraction then I find it difficult to believe you've every written code to run on bare metal and/or code to run inside an OS.
I'll take bare metal code over writing inside an OS any day for simplicity. Unfortunately that means I have to not just reinvent the wheel, I have to reinvent thousands of different wheels, so its not the best way to going about writing a spreadsheet or web browser app.
A GOOD developer is well aware of the increase in difficulty due to added complexity of the world he/she works in when under the control of the OS and its preemptive multitasking and control restrictions which remove much of the power of the hardware and makes you dependent on someone elses code.
Your Apple came with schematics back when the people using it could have potentially had the ability to understand them and use them for something. The people buying them were educated or tinkerers to start with, and the system wasn't very complex at all.
I have no problem putting Atmel ATmega cpus on my own custom etched PCBs, and doing all the programming to make them do what I want. Gave my wife a singing ring box with our song in it when I preposed to her.
There isn't a chance in hell that the schematic for an iPad, iPhone, MacBook or any full featured PC would do me anything useful. So much of the hardware is in the ICs at that level so that it can be made into small form factors that schematics would be pointless.
You made a point, but its irrelevant given other constraints on the system. Even hard core geeks wouldn't find schematics all that useful, and the fact that the majority of buys are just everyday joes that could give a shit about the innards is just icing on the cake as far as why you wouldn't bother to include such things.
I've made more powerful computers than the Apple you had in my work shed, you are comparing different classes of Apples. Must resist citrus fruit reference
My MBP runs about 7 hours browsing the web over wifi with flash disabled.
If I get an hour of watching youtube videos on battery it was a really good day, yet I've used my MBP to watch itunes moves for more than a few hours, never really noticed how long, I do know that I've watched the entire southpark movie and several of the MIT podcasts while riding in a car, so it out lives flash by miles, literally.
Flash most certainly kills battery life on my MBP, I can play Tropico 3 for longer than I can play Evony (flash based web game) on battery.
Say what you will, flash is asstastic in every conceivable way for anyone but designers. The Flash IDE is the only thing like it, if someone makes something as good as it is or better for HTML5 or SVG, I don't really see Flash having much longer to live. Without the editor, I don't see flash going away, regardless of what big websites use HTML5 or SVG instead of flash.
Say what you want about all the other crap, you're an idiot if you don't recognize the problem with flash on battery powered devices.
If you're leaving a sensor in a cave or mine to gather data, its going to be there a while. Take a spool of wire with you on the way in and just hard wire the thing for data and power.
Wireless is rarely the right way to do things, especially stationary things.
If I couldn't modify my ECU I'd bitch about it. Most cars still allow it though. They make it hard but there is a thriving aftermarket in that sort of thing, especially in the sort of cars where that makes sense.
I said replace the software, not tweak the settings. You aren't replacing the ECU software, you're tweaking the parameters stored in it for performance reasons. Big difference.
Either way, thats a far more involved process than replacing an iPod battery which is basically, 'open case, unsolder old battery, solder in new battery, close case'... and maybe a 'buy a kit with battery and instructions from the Internet'
I'm not even going to bother commenting on the TV portion, I'm sure it goes along with your monster cables.
Please show me an instance of replacable firmware on a thermostat. I didn't say environment control system for the building, I said thermostat. Yes you can change major portions of a buildings environment control system, thats not anything like an iPod.
It's my understanding that replacing the picture tube in TVs isn't difficult only on, say, Samsung TVs.
Doesn't have to be, it can be made into a 'module' just like a battery pack. Slide it out, disconnect the one plug with all the wires on it, slide a new one in, and plug it back in.
Most other portable music players don't have the same technology packed into them as the iPod or iPhone does. They are larger to contain the same equipment or smaller with less space or capabilities. The original iPod, which started the battery bitching was barely larger than the hard drive it contained, I don't even think you can find an enclosure for one of those drives thats the same size or smaller than an iPod.
Adding a case around the battery and a way to securely fasten it to the device, make good reliable contact over the years... its just not really worth it.
Similarly for thermostats---firmware upgrades are hard on all thermostats, not just the $VENDOR ones.
Doesn't have to be, they all use pretty generic processors. A spec sheet and a sd card port would make it easy to write new software. They use generic components. Put out some specs, someone could write their own open source software for the thermostat.
You think these things are difficult because you don't know anything about them and because you've never had the ability to swap out what I mentioned. By making them unchangable the price of the overall device is lowered and the form factor can be made smaller, its a trade off, and its a trade off that consumers wanted.
You didn't do much research. Toyota has been having this problem for several years now, its been in the news several times, it has not been fixed, and they keep coming up with new excuses for the problem.
They don't know, or don't want to admit to it.
Either way, you're an idiot for trusting them to tell you its safe to drive your car. It doesn't matter how rare it is, its JUST as likely to happen to you as it is every owner. They haven't told the truth or have had no clue what the problem is for several years. Trusting them is about as intelligent as trusting a politician at this point.
They apply braking pressure to the rear wheel only, and they will lock up well before any useful amount of stopping force is achieved.
Now you have a car that is out of control because the rear end has no traction, AND it isn't stopping.
Please turn in your license and never drive a car again.
If a car requires itself to be put in neutral then it needs to be removed from the road, there should be NOTHING that stops you from turning it off in an instant.
completely ignorant and the designers should be shot.
With power assisted traditional brakes you still have enough braking power to stand on the pedal and accomplish something.
If these cars do not have a direct mechanical linkage to the brakes from drivers foot to calipers or pads they should be destroyed. Theres no reason to unlink the mechanical component on passenger cars, none.
Or back to levers. Or use cables of a higher quality rather than electronics that although 'designed' to operate in the conditions under the hood, they are BARELY designed to handle it, and as such fail rather often.
As you said with the O2 sensor however, the computer doesn't work that way by design. When an O2 sensor fails, the ECU defaults to a full rich condition designed to allow the car to run until you can get it fixed. The car runs but at extremely reduced efficiency and with less performance across the board.
The solution is to just put the damn thing back on a key.
There is no actual reason not to use a key, there is no usability increase from using a button and most certainly usability problems from using a button.
At least make the button a fucking toggle rather than momentary contact.
Perhaps the idiots should take a clue from people who have doing fly by wire for a lot longer... aircraft.
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Considering it involves rockets and some scientific method, it most certainly IS rocket science.
They still have launch issues every once in a while. Far more often than Toyota has 'floor mats causing the gas pedal to stick'.
Guess when the most problems occur ... first 100 miles.
Contrary to what you might think, NASA has more experience and knowledge about the subject than you do.
Same place you find a betamax player probably.
Just because they aren't the most popular type of device for that purpose doesn't mean they instantly disappear.
People will collect all sorts of crap, and I'm betting you can find a Betamax player in a pawn shop in every large city.
Just who did those jokes harm?
Its one thing to make a joke in front of the families of those lost in the accident, but to make jokes around people with no direct connection really doesn't do any harm.
To answer your question though, they were common in the schools all through central Florida.
The problem is the use of the word 'absorb'.
You aren't going to absorb it in any useful amount, you have to spread it. The energy HAS to go somewhere.
People aren't really thrown back, they are knocked off balance because they weren't prepared for the energy imparted on them. If getting shot actually 'knocked you back' it would do the same to the person firing.
Body armor just helps spread the force across a larger area. Your body is pretty damn resilient, but when you rich the breaking point it just falls apart. Body armor tries to prevent it from reaching that breaking point by taking say (totally making numbers up here, I have no idea what the real values are) 2500 pounds of force in a 1/4" area and spreading it across say 10 inches of surface area, NOW you've got something that while it'll hurt like hell, won't actually kill you.
This isnt entirely correct.
The crumple zone will be fully collapsed in many cases well before you stop moving. The remaining energy is absorbed elsewhere. The cabin has to be designed strong as if it collapsed it'd be just as deadly. The other problem is that the crumple zone works well to start with, and then becomes useless quickly. Its great for the first part of a highspeed impact, but the energy it absorbs before it fails can be only the initial part of the impact. As the structure gets further along its failure mode its ability to absorb energy gets lower and lower, rapidly.
Crumple zones can be greatly improved by spreading out the slowdown period and making it consistent rather than falling off rapidly very soon after the initial impact.
Thats what this can help to do, in theory anyway.
I certainly wouldn't recommend getting rid of airbags anyway. Crumple zones may help to slow the car down, but the human body STILL has to slowdown as well.
The biggest problem is that the body can't withstand all that deceleration on the limited points of contact that something like a seat belt provides.
An airbag provides a contact area across your entire face and chest in some cases, so rather than your forhead smacking the steering wheel or windshield, it smacks a much softer surface of the airbag, at the initial contact points, like say your nose, you sink into it, and the pressure across your face and body increase as more of your body pushes into it, spreading the load equally across all surfaces, keeping the load at any one point MUCH lower.
Example: A shotgun shell loaded with buckshot shot at a person from say 20 feet will certainly break the skin and damage internal organs. Put a bean bag in it, use the same load in the shell, and you end up with a really bad bruise rather than hamburger for a chest.
Example 2: Put an egg on the counter, smack it with a fork, relatively lightly, it will crack. Now put it in your hand and squeeze it equally on all parts, you won't break it. If you do, its because you applied the pressure unequally, not because of the amount of pressure you applied.
Surviving crashes is more about limiting the pressure on any given point of your body at any given time. You HAVE to dissipate ALL of the energy in your body, that you can't get around. The key to survival is to keep the PSI at any given point on your body at any given point in time to within limits that the body can withstand without permanent injuries, or at least without the injuries being fatal.
No single solution is 'the right way to do it', the more methods you have to dissipate the force across as much of the mass at the same time so everything shares it equally, the better chance you have to survive. You could run your car into a solid wall at 100mph and not have any real damage IF you could apply an equal stopping force to EVERY bit of mass in the equation.
If you look at all the things used to help in accidents, its all about spreading the load across everything, not ignoring it or trying to have any one thing absorb it all.
I know a lot of middle aged people who own portable systems. Admittedly, they are usually the parents of kids who own powerful consoles.
I can think of at least 3 single moms that love their portables for just sitting down and relaxing during work breaks or when they get home to some gaming. They aren't hardcore gamers, but certainly do game.
Interestingly enough, I don't think any of them own cell phones.
I don't have a degree.
I don't include the education section.
No one asks why I didn't.
I have no problem getting hired at large companies and government organizations in the US.
If you don't show them certain things they don't think about them, as we've established, HR isn't the brightest bunch. If you aren't smart enough to get by them, its probably in the companies best interests that you don't.
SSD's aren't going to be cheap soon, they have enough advantages over rust that they'll be an overpriced alternative until we stop using rust completely, which is still some time off.
You'll probably never buy a new 300G SSD for 200. You might buy one of a much larger size for $200 because by the time it happens we'll be using MUCH larger drives.
If by so many, you mean a tiny percentage of users, which doesn't even include all 'geeks' then ... sure, its normal for many.
Reality is though, I can think of about 10 iPhone users I know right this instant, none of which have jailbroken their phones other than myself. Most of those 10 are geeks as well.
To take that a step further, I don't jailbreak anymore, its not worth the effort for little to no value. I don't care about anything that jailbreaking requires.
I don't care about VoIP over 3g, its a phone, I can just make a phone call.
I don't care about background apps, its a phone. I don't need an instant messenger running, I can get phone calls and text messages already.
I don't care about sim unlocks, I like visual voicemail and I'm an AT&T subscriber anyway. They might 'suck' but so do all the others in one way or another.
Jailbreaking really isn't that popular, contrary to the popular belief here. Geeks are rarely ever realistically connected to the rest of the world.
No, the people you see ranting are the ones who don't have any ideas or ability to do anything useful with it.
The people with stuff to do on it are writing apps so they'll be ready when the time comes for it to hit the shelves.
For every bad review (of anything, computer related or anything else like cars or restuarnts) there are 100 people with a good experience. People who are happy just enjoy it, people who are pissed off vent on forums or review sites.
This is why you can't use something like CitySearch to get reviews of a business, all you'll see are bad reviews and maybe one or two good ones from the few people that read all the bad ones, went anyway, and then felt the need to set the record straight for others to enjoy it.
Whiners tend to drown everyone else out.
Cycle accurate is unneeded. Its a multitasking OS (even if its doesn't let a developer do so), you have no control over when you get cycles on the real hardware, the emulator doesn't need to be and its unlikely you could tell the difference even if it were.
You need that kind of emulation when you're writing an OS, when writing something on top of the OS without direct hardware access, you don't.
If you can afford these devices to 'tinker with', the $100 isn't something you'll notice missing once a year. Thats one expensive date. Or a day at an amusement park with one person.
$100/year is a trivial cost, and its one you only have to pay AFTER you've already exhausted what you can do in the simulator and are sure you're ready to do it on real hardware.
If you're tinkering with your PC, you are in effect tinkering with a kit you bought. You might not have bought the PC specifically for tinkering, but you did buy it.
If you don't recognize how much more it is to develop for an OS with hundreds of layers of abstraction then I find it difficult to believe you've every written code to run on bare metal and/or code to run inside an OS.
I'll take bare metal code over writing inside an OS any day for simplicity. Unfortunately that means I have to not just reinvent the wheel, I have to reinvent thousands of different wheels, so its not the best way to going about writing a spreadsheet or web browser app.
A GOOD developer is well aware of the increase in difficulty due to added complexity of the world he/she works in when under the control of the OS and its preemptive multitasking and control restrictions which remove much of the power of the hardware and makes you dependent on someone elses code.
Your Apple came with schematics back when the people using it could have potentially had the ability to understand them and use them for something. The people buying them were educated or tinkerers to start with, and the system wasn't very complex at all.
I have no problem putting Atmel ATmega cpus on my own custom etched PCBs, and doing all the programming to make them do what I want. Gave my wife a singing ring box with our song in it when I preposed to her.
There isn't a chance in hell that the schematic for an iPad, iPhone, MacBook or any full featured PC would do me anything useful. So much of the hardware is in the ICs at that level so that it can be made into small form factors that schematics would be pointless.
You made a point, but its irrelevant given other constraints on the system. Even hard core geeks wouldn't find schematics all that useful, and the fact that the majority of buys are just everyday joes that could give a shit about the innards is just icing on the cake as far as why you wouldn't bother to include such things.
I've made more powerful computers than the Apple you had in my work shed, you are comparing different classes of Apples. Must resist citrus fruit reference
My MBP runs about 7 hours browsing the web over wifi with flash disabled.
If I get an hour of watching youtube videos on battery it was a really good day, yet I've used my MBP to watch itunes moves for more than a few hours, never really noticed how long, I do know that I've watched the entire southpark movie and several of the MIT podcasts while riding in a car, so it out lives flash by miles, literally.
Flash most certainly kills battery life on my MBP, I can play Tropico 3 for longer than I can play Evony (flash based web game) on battery.
Say what you will, flash is asstastic in every conceivable way for anyone but designers. The Flash IDE is the only thing like it, if someone makes something as good as it is or better for HTML5 or SVG, I don't really see Flash having much longer to live. Without the editor, I don't see flash going away, regardless of what big websites use HTML5 or SVG instead of flash.
Say what you want about all the other crap, you're an idiot if you don't recognize the problem with flash on battery powered devices.
The law only works because the majority of the population respect it.
As you say, once you make a law that the majority don't want to honor and respect, the law is unenforceable.
As they say, they can't put us ALL in jail.
Seriously.
If you're leaving a sensor in a cave or mine to gather data, its going to be there a while. Take a spool of wire with you on the way in and just hard wire the thing for data and power.
Wireless is rarely the right way to do things, especially stationary things.
I said replace the software, not tweak the settings. You aren't replacing the ECU software, you're tweaking the parameters stored in it for performance reasons. Big difference.
Either way, thats a far more involved process than replacing an iPod battery which is basically, 'open case, unsolder old battery, solder in new battery, close case' ... and maybe a 'buy a kit with battery and instructions from the Internet'
I'm not even going to bother commenting on the TV portion, I'm sure it goes along with your monster cables.
Please show me an instance of replacable firmware on a thermostat. I didn't say environment control system for the building, I said thermostat. Yes you can change major portions of a buildings environment control system, thats not anything like an iPod.
Doesn't have to be, it can be made into a 'module' just like a battery pack. Slide it out, disconnect the one plug with all the wires on it, slide a new one in, and plug it back in.
Most other portable music players don't have the same technology packed into them as the iPod or iPhone does. They are larger to contain the same equipment or smaller with less space or capabilities. The original iPod, which started the battery bitching was barely larger than the hard drive it contained, I don't even think you can find an enclosure for one of those drives thats the same size or smaller than an iPod.
Adding a case around the battery and a way to securely fasten it to the device, make good reliable contact over the years ... its just not really worth it.
Doesn't have to be, they all use pretty generic processors. A spec sheet and a sd card port would make it easy to write new software. They use generic components. Put out some specs, someone could write their own open source software for the thermostat.
You think these things are difficult because you don't know anything about them and because you've never had the ability to swap out what I mentioned. By making them unchangable the price of the overall device is lowered and the form factor can be made smaller, its a trade off, and its a trade off that consumers wanted.
You didn't do much research. Toyota has been having this problem for several years now, its been in the news several times, it has not been fixed, and they keep coming up with new excuses for the problem.
They don't know, or don't want to admit to it.
Either way, you're an idiot for trusting them to tell you its safe to drive your car. It doesn't matter how rare it is, its JUST as likely to happen to you as it is every owner. They haven't told the truth or have had no clue what the problem is for several years. Trusting them is about as intelligent as trusting a politician at this point.
Your license is revoked.
You do not use the emergancy brakes to stop.
They apply braking pressure to the rear wheel only, and they will lock up well before any useful amount of stopping force is achieved.
Now you have a car that is out of control because the rear end has no traction, AND it isn't stopping.
Please turn in your license and never drive a car again.
If a car requires itself to be put in neutral then it needs to be removed from the road, there should be NOTHING that stops you from turning it off in an instant.
completely ignorant and the designers should be shot.
With power assisted traditional brakes you still have enough braking power to stand on the pedal and accomplish something.
If these cars do not have a direct mechanical linkage to the brakes from drivers foot to calipers or pads they should be destroyed. Theres no reason to unlink the mechanical component on passenger cars, none.
Or back to levers. Or use cables of a higher quality rather than electronics that although 'designed' to operate in the conditions under the hood, they are BARELY designed to handle it, and as such fail rather often.
As you said with the O2 sensor however, the computer doesn't work that way by design. When an O2 sensor fails, the ECU defaults to a full rich condition designed to allow the car to run until you can get it fixed. The car runs but at extremely reduced efficiency and with less performance across the board.
The solution is to just put the damn thing back on a key.
There is no actual reason not to use a key, there is no usability increase from using a button and most certainly usability problems from using a button.
At least make the button a fucking toggle rather than momentary contact.
Perhaps the idiots should take a clue from people who have doing fly by wire for a lot longer ... aircraft.