Comment A surprising factoid (Score 2, Interesting) 562
As tragic as it is, the Panama incident does not stand alone. In all, Baseline has found no fewer than a half-dozen cases in which software has contributed to loss of life.
I'm surprised that they only found a half-dozen cases in which software contributed to loss of life. Back in the old days when I used to subscribe to the comp.risks digest it used to seem that every couple months there was some fatality or near fatality that could be traced to flawed software. If anything, given the increasing use of embedded systems in our society, I would have thought that the fatality rate would have increased.
I'm surprised that they only found a half-dozen cases in which software contributed to loss of life. Back in the old days when I used to subscribe to the comp.risks digest it used to seem that every couple months there was some fatality or near fatality that could be traced to flawed software. If anything, given the increasing use of embedded systems in our society, I would have thought that the fatality rate would have increased.
