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Originally Posted by Bunkster
If the “computer programming” used to figure out simple, kindergarten-like equations at the finish line were possible 40 years ago…and they were…what in the Hell was so difficult applying that same “programming” to the starting line?
It wasn’t. It never has been. If you could figure out things at the finish line, which was based on simple data inputs from several clocks and doing some math, adding the results from an additional set of inputs from the starting line to the decision of which win light to turn on would have been no problem.
This has always been centered around common, simple “if-then-else-endif” statements in programming. There has NEVER been anything technically difficult about installing a “worst red light” system in drag racing. If you could do finish line decisions in which “win light” to turn on, you sure as Hell could include, in your “if-then-else-endif” statement, the clock inputs from the starting line.
None of this…even going back to the seventies…has ever been high-tech or difficult to do.
It’s borderline criminal “worst” red light wasn’t instituted decades ago.
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All the computer programmers I know agree with you, they say it was long overdue from a software viewpoint and offered congrats to Peter and Kyle for forcing the issue.