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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