FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 02.May.05 19:57:33 US Mountain Standard Time, 
> Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu writes:
> 
>>how many people buy Saturn's for their "safety ratting" with out
>>actually looking at the safety studies (you are guarantied to looses your 
> 
> legs
> 
>>in a 40 MPH head on collision in most Saturn's.  They have one of the worst
>>ratings in their 
> 
> 
> 
> Well, it's a matter of playing the game.  The test procedure is canned, so 
> they can cheat based on knowing what the test entails.
> 
> They can get a 10 star rating by reinforcing the car for the exact tests.  I 
> don't doubt every firm in the business does it at least a little.
> 
> If there are any here from ASU CS programme, they'll know what I say when I 
> compare it with Prof. Whitehouse's automated testing system.  In theory, a 
> product which merely scanned the input and fed the desired output on the test 
> cases can get 50 percent, without actually doing any computation.
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I actually used to *love* that about Richard's test though I gradurated 
before they were truely automated. It wasn't much different when his 
T.A's were grading.
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