8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
5:07 a.m.
At 01:10 PM 3/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
Besides, it is a great economic model for the dealer/manufacturer:
A - Customer brings in broken car
B - Dealer swaps computer and charges customer $1000
C - Manufacturer gets trade in computer which is likely still good
D - Customer's problem comes back, goto A
--tom
I know McDonnell-Douglas was testing the same
thing for fighter planes.
Most of the time they swap boards. They have developed test benches that
test the boards. I remember that computers were swapped in the planes and
then off you go. How would you survive a disk crash? It's interesting
that were haven't yet heard of any computer virus problems with cars and
planes.
It's a matter of economics. It's a LOT cheaper to swap the boards in the
field than to troubleshoot them. Just send the boards to DEPO where they are
better equiped (skills and tools) to do component level repair.