Category: <span>Autonomous</span>

Apple Car – Connecting the dots…Updated

February 5, 2021 Shaker Cherukuri 21st century, Autonomous No Comments

The much rumored Apple car is here folks!! An autonomous transport vehicle system rather than a personal passenger car? https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1131142_first-apple-car-reportedly-designed-to-skip-the-driver Makes sense since in the future, which has arrived due to…

Trillion is the new billion?

December 13, 2020 Shaker Cherukuri 21st century, Autonomous, Coronavirus, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy No Comments

The possibility of a repeat of the 20th century roaring 20s in the 21st century has now become a certainty due to the great 2020 reset. https://www.slideshare.net/ShakerCherukuri/roaring-20s-again What we now…

BCG Vaccine vs COVID-19 Immunity Hypothesis

April 1, 2020 Shaker Cherukuri 21st century, Autonomous, Health Care, Root Cause Analysis, Safety and Security No Comments

There appears to be something to the theory that BCG (TB) vaccination provides immunity to COVID-19. This is out-of-the-box thinking! Researchers in the Netherlands are testing BCG vaccine against #COVID19…

WiFi6 Mesh Network for Gigabit Problem Solving

March 16, 2020 Shaker Cherukuri 21st century, Autonomous, IoT No Comments

I have been trying to get the Gigabit internet service for a while now. It finally happened. Just in time for the entire family working and schooling from home due…

21st Century Entrepreneurship! It is not about mobile apps…

October 1, 2019 Shaker Cherukuri 21st century, Autonomous, IoT No Comments

The recent upheaval in the 2019 IPOs might just be a good indication of peak mobile and peak mobile apps. WeWork just shelved its IPO! Most of the the other…

Flight Control Systems and Systems Integration issues on Boeing 737 Max 8?

April 2, 2019 Shaker Cherukuri Autonomous, Root Cause Analysis, Safety and Security No Comments

Update 7 The offset was 60 degrees between the two AOA sensors in the case of Ethiopian Air after an incident during take off? Bird strike? Plus the following… MTBF…

Boeing 737 Max 8 MCAS – Is the proposed Fix good enough?

March 29, 2019 Shaker Cherukuri Autonomous, Root Cause Analysis, Safety and Security No Comments

Swiss cheese. You hear that a lot in systems design and engineering. It is often not possible to fail safe a system with 100% certainty. Especially true when there is…

MCAS Algorithm & The Unintended Consequences – Boeing 737 Max

March 18, 2019 Shaker Cherukuri Autonomous, Regulatory Issues, Root Cause Analysis, Safety and Security No Comments

An Exclusive by Seattle times reporter Dominic Gates has detailed some of the lapses in the design of the Boing 737Max8 MCAS control algorithm. EXCLUSIVE: Flawed analysis, failed oversight.How Boeing…

Ethiopian Airlines ET 302 Boeing 737 Max 8

March 10, 2019 Shaker Cherukuri Autonomous, Safety and Security No Comments

It has happened again. Another catastrophic crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 albeit with a different airline. The MCAS feature is like those garage door sensors. Trying to mitigate…

Lion Air Flight 610 Boeing 737 MAX 8

January 14, 2019 Shaker Cherukuri Autonomous, Regulatory Issues, Safety and Security No Comments

I have been following this incident since October 2018. Reading and commenting on articles in New York Times and Wall Street Journal using Twitter thread to sort of catalog my…