Well it clearly hasnt worked has it?
Farking media are such scum.
I seriously never understand the need for a talented CEO to jump on a sword when a system out of their control fails. It is far to easy to suggest as some on here have that the CEO should have invested more and planned for such events. ■■■■ happens.
Paywalled:
■■■■ does happen and should be planned for with a contingency/rollback plan.
Sounded like techs had to physically go to the routers to reset, which begs the question, how the f is there not a separate mgmt network connected to the routers directly or to PCs consoled into the routers.
Whoever PMed that upgrade should be shown the door.
Lets just say standards/experience/$ have dropped significantly over the last decade.
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Five counts of culpable driving causing death, two counts of negligently causing serious injury and seven counts of reckless conduct endangering life.
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Sheesh
His lawyer reckons it’ll be impossible to prove the driver ignored or was aware of the alarm pings on his mobile warning him of low blood sugar levels.
This trial will be ridiculous. Watch him get off, or at the most a few years in the slammer.
In a recent case a speeding driver killed five friends and will only serve 7 years.
“The man behind the wheel when an SUV ploughed into patrons outside a Victorian pub received nine warnings on his phone that his blood glucose levels were low in the lead-up to the fatal crash, police allege.”
Reckon he will go to jail for a long time.
Everyone I know who is insulin dependent always know when they need help. Not saying they always take action, but they are aware they are in trouble.
Missing one or two warnings perhaps, but ignoring nine.
You’re right, type 1 diabetics know when they need help, but the defendant will say he felt fine (prove he didn’t) and didn’t hear the alarms. (prove that he did).
It’ll be one of those cases were everyone knows he’s probably lying his backside off but cannot prove it.
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To convict a person of culpable driving causing death, the prosecution must prove each of the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
they were driving a motor vehicle;
the driving was culpable; and
their culpable driving caused the death of another person.
Element two is the one that the defence is likely to raise.
I wonder how loud the alarm is. Does it wake the dead? Can it be turned down or muted? Does it keeping sounding until you respond to it?
If he switched it off or muted it prior to or during driving it’ll probably show in the settings. If so, he’s a goner. This trial will get lots of publicity methinks.
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Does the glucose monitor ping, or does it go to a mobile?
I think there are different ones.
The one my Uncle uses goes to his phone and he always has the Bluetooth on when he drives and he has the setting so that it pings loudly. He pulls over ASAP when that happens.
It went off when we going down the Clyde one day and scared the life out of me. He pulled over in a little run off area and did what he had to
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lets just ban everyone with diabetes from driving, that will fix the problem 
Had a old driver the other day doing 70km hour on the highway, a menace.
Then today had a old bloke drive onto a public walkway and along the board walk for a few hundred metres as he went the wrong way out of a car park and couldn’t put it in reverse.
I would reckon that five people dying is a good pointer to culpability.
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Within the definition of culpability there are elements that need to be satisfied like recklessness and negligence. I think there would be things like is it reasonable that someone who has a medical condition like diabetes monitor their health including being informed by app notifications. If so then is it reasonable the driver missed or ignored or didn’t turn their mind to the app.
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Report says he scanned it 40 min prior and it was low at that time.
I don’t have diabetes but unless the app is wrong, wouldn’t he have been suffering the physiological symptoms of low blood sugar?