Magnetic Field About to Blow!
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"Many suspect that Toyota's accelerator glitches have been caused by electronic problems, and one well-documented - albeit rare - cause of electronic problems is when cosmic radiation hits electronic chips. Remember the Qantas plane nearly-crash?
The risk of cosmic ray interference is expected to increase as chips and circuits get smaller.
In a worryingly prescient interview with the BBC a couple of years ago, Intel's senior scientist Eric Hannah predicted the whole thing.
"You could be going down the autobahn at 200 miles an hour and suddenly discover your anti-lock braking system doesn't work because it had a cosmic ray event," Hannah said in 2008. "It's strange, but this is the reality we're moving into as we get smaller and smaller circuits.""