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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (56)	2/3/1998 11:33:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 618

David Hall on road trucks, cars I consider David to be a very knowledgable and serious writer about Y2K. Cheryl has written more about him in a recent post. This is from the SIM forum. John ------ '73. Author: David C. Hall ( dhall ) Date: Feb. 1 7:55 PM 1998 Another note for automobiles. If my info is correct, Nissan has stated that their cars do use chips that keep track off the second, minute, hour day and year, BUT: Those chips are initialized at the factory to a year 0, day 0, and hour 0 when the car is completed. They use this intialization year instead of the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, such chips should have no problem with date functions. Be aware that this does NOT mean that any vehicles are free of Year 2000 problems. The State of Texas has found fire trucks that have calendar problems, some Caterpiller vehicles have been found with calendar problems, and some over-the-road trucks, etc. Seems like the more expensive the vehicle, the more likely it has some type of control or monitoring system. That kind of system is likely to contain a Year 2000 problem. Dave Hall' ----- 75. Author: David C. Hall ( dhall ) Date: Feb. 2 4:31 PM 1998 As to the over the road trucks, the recently installed monitoring systems that keep track of where the truck is, where its going, etc., have shown some Year 2000 problems. I'll try to get some exact model data and info. As noted, there may not be (m)any "shut the engine down" problems, but ancillary systems failures or erroneous data generation may provide enough interest for people. The caterpiller model info was posted here about a month (?) ago. I'll see if I can get the Texas people to provide model numbers on the fire trucks. Also note that these systems are considered unique in each type/fleet of vehicles. GPS systems, for example, use the same user equipment, but are set up within a fleet differently enough to be considered unique. Depends upon WHAT the company needs at the time. Check everything, or I fully expect you will be hit by an unexpected failure. Dave Hall'