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Bend alot
His reply was this - "Or not stopping abruptly. The emergency brakes should be hardware interlocked, and independent of computer control, but cost cutting will end up with another
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 on our hands. A lot of the software is not open to public scrutiny (locked up on the grounds of "proprietary"), so we have to trust people to write software with minimal bugs, but the pressure to market ensures that it's typically rushed. Boeing were initially denying that anything could be wrong with their software until the death of two plane-loads of people and mounting evidence forced them to admit their defects".
A classic.
Here is another one frome the Aerospace industry - including deficient test planning and testing equipment:
ARIANE 5 Failure - Full Report
I just have some problem on the table to solve. Rootcause is some hipster big data internet of things component added to a decade old distributed control system breaking it from time to time. Love it.