• How will you ensure that SCUFS code is reliable enough to meet the safety requirements?
• How will SCUFS respond to bad weather?
• How will SCUFS support troubleshooting?
• Is it possible to shut SCUFS down? If so, under what circumstances?
• How will SCUFS be started up?
• Will SCUFS run on a small number of large servers, a large number of small servers, or somewhere in between?
• What operating system(s) will be used?
• What programming language(s) will be used?
• What large-scale middleware (e.g. Java EE, .Net) will be used, if any?
• How will communication inside SCUFS work?
• Will commercial off-the-shelf components (COTS) be used? If so, what requirements will SCUFS place on the software and/or vendor?
• What major enhancements or extensions do you think SCUFS will have to support?
• What are the "critical functions" referred to in the availability quality attribute scenario?
• What constitutes an outage of a critical function?
• What systems do you know of that have similarities to SCUFS?
• What approaches or patterns from those systems might be applicable here?
• How will SCUFS be administered?
• How will drivers specify their desired exits? (exit numbers? road names? town names? mileposts?)
• Will all sources of weather, traffic and road condition data have equal credibility?

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