The submersible ship carrying five other people who missed their nearly two-hour journey at 2100 fathoms on a dive to the Titanic was controlled via a replaced game controller.
A video game controller is rarely a navigation formula for safe ships or even things like army drone pilots, but in this case it was a $30 Logitech PC controller. It was shown in videos about the submarine before its launch with slightly modified controllers. , and is a Logitech G F710, recently available on Amazon in a “refurbished” (refurbished) edition for $30. The original has a score of 4. 2/5.
It’s not a PlayStation controller as some have said, that’s how it looks like at its best. In contrast, all supported devices are Windows-based, starting with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Again, there’s no way saberlo. si the controller has anything to do with the secondary issues, and no one deserves to blame Logitech given that, uh, “submarine control” wasn’t promised when the controller was built. However, Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, said, “We managed everything with this game controller” prior to launch, stating that they made it imperative to the submersible’s operation.
If you’ve ever used a video game controller, on- and off-brand versions, you know that over time, they tend to degrade or can become unreliable. Looking in particular at some revisions of this driver, we can see that, like all drivers, this can also happen to this one:
“I bought it in February and I’d like to say I play a decent amount on my PC. If that’s also you, I recommend buying groceries first. My pimples are already dying. It’s been a struggle.
It is also a. . . former controller. I’m not sure when it was first created, but some of those reviews (and there are a lot of positive!) date back to 2012 (update: the driver was first released in 2010). At this point, it still works today, as some recent reviews are from this year. But like all controllers, it has the potential to degrade or malfunction over time.
Again, I don’t think Logitech deserves to be blamed, whether the controller is at fault or not. Real seats. We’ll have to wait and see if it is ever found, and if so, if the cause of the twist of fate can ever be determined.
I’ve reached out to Logitech to see if they have a comment on the situation, and I’ll if I have a response.
Update: Logitech has no comments.
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