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CTO had to make a deadline for the next morning, so he decided to override the safety system of an Autonomous Guided Vehicle of a few tons. Just bridged over it electrically.

Not only this, but he failed to inform the onsite crew that was going to put it in production.

AGV went somewhere it wasn't supposed to go, first employee pushed the red safety stop. AGV kept on riding, and thank god there was another person at the electonics panel to make it stop.

I was outraged about this, said that someone could have died, and that could mean jail time for the CTO. They said I was overreacting, and continued on their latest project that involved an AGV carrying people in an amusement park. I quited after that.



Now I am curios! What deadline needs you to override the safety system of an Autonomous Guided Vehicle?


Cashflow. Customer paid a part on the "delivery" milestone. This means the thing had to drive a bit on-site.

Problem was that it didn't want to move because of wrong interfacing of the safety system. So the solution was quick.


I read this as "The CTO was late for a meeting, and needed to travel across campus really fast"




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