BUG OF THE WEEK: HIGH AIR QUALITY READINGS CAUSED BY REAL LIFE BUG
by Hazed
The system that measures the air quality in the Canadian city of Calgary has a bug. The bug is causing the machine to give incorrect readings which were much higher than they should be.
But it’s not a bug in the software. It’s a real, physical bug: a spider, which crawled inside the instrumentation at one of the monitoring stations, and caused the readings to be wildly inaccurate.
Mandeep Dhaliwal, the air quality program manager, explained that “We’re still having trouble getting the spider out.” So the system remains buggy.