Larry Rudolph is sitting in the back seat of a cab on his way to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh when the driver suddenly stops the vehicle and says: “Excuse me, I need to reboot my taxi.” The driver shuts off the car, counts until ten, and then turns it back on. The digital speedometer, which had been reading zero despite the car?s movement, is now working again. Rudolph says it was the first time he saw someone reboot a car. It was strange, but it worked.
This piece on rebooting via George Siemens strengthens my observation that we are still all early adopters.