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You're sort of skipping over the bit where a bug in the software (or a hardware issue) kills the user. That's the crux of "being blamed" and regulation. You mi
by nutjob2 8y ago
You're sort of skipping over the bit where a bug in the software (or a hardware issue) kills the user. That's the crux of "being blamed" and regulation.
You might say in response it will "almost never" happen, but when it happens to your loved one it most certainly matters a lot.
- jimrandomh 8y agoThe risk-of-death is actually quite well understood. If a user gets too much insulin, and doesn't feel when their blood sugar is low and doesn't get a low-blood-sugar alarm or doesn't respond to the alarm, then they could die. So if the closed-loop system incorrectly commands too high a dose of insulin, that could be fatal. But the alternative isn't that too-high doses of insulin never happen. The alternative is that all insulin doses are selected by a human, and subject to human error. And having a low blood sugar event due to too much insulin is not a rare occurrence for T1 diabetics at all.