Can anyone tell me what went wrong in Westworld...

[Dennis Toy]

I was watching that old Adult Amusement Park gone haywire flick called Westworld, you know the one with the robotic gunslinger. I had learned alot about engineering practices in this site and i wanted to quiz you all in here.

What went wrong in westworld, use your engineering knowledge learned from Stardestroyer.Net and produce and answer.

[EmperorChrostas the Cruel]

My take on Westworld, and what went wrong was, Holosuite, no safeties.
The computers were designing computers, that were designing computers, that were designing the robots, with the goal of realism, and safety conflicting. They were either not clear enough in the priorities, or the AIs designing the robots were getting too nuanced in their definitions of "realistic" and "safe".

[Dennis Toy]

My take


Redundancy....There was no redundancy, one system powered 5 different functions instead of the other way around. So the scientist had no way to shut down the robots

Isolation: The computers and robots were on the same system, Delos did not network the systems with different computers and different electronics. In a real network. You use different systems so if one fails the other can take over.

Dead man's principle: No way to simultaneously shut down the robots and computers all at once. They couldn't just shut down power with a switch and all the robots fall to the ground

Westworld was a deathtrap..

[Patrick Degan]

Bill Gates wrote Westworld's operating system, thus turning the amusement park into a product-liability lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Mr Bean]

Please you should know by now that Gates OS's are perfect for Death-Traps, If something messes the whole place crashes to the ground all the Robots would have just fallen over

Now if they where using 0S/2 Warp then I could forsee the events contiuing as they appered in the movie