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This will add a tremendous amount of cost to product development. This might be worthwhile if simple consumer or industry pressure doesn't work.
by bradfa 11y ago
This will add a tremendous amount of cost to product development. This might be worthwhile if simple consumer or industry pressure doesn't work.
- arbitrage 11y ago> This will add a tremendous amount of cost to product development. Not that many people are getting killed, so it's an acceptable tradeoff?
- hga 11y agoYes, it's an potentially acceptable tradeoff. While the figures vary, economists and the like have estimates of how many people you'll kill for every N million dollars you extract from the economy (and they're below 10 million last time I checked). Just how much do you propose to extract with such a regime?
- achr2 11y agoI am not advocating that every aspect of a system is tested by an agency, I am simply saying that there should be a body that ensures that safety-critical software development follows a basic set of best practices - avoiding some of pitfalls mentioned in the article.