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> In the Therac case, at least part of the fault fell with the operators who should have known what to look for (if things had been well documented and they'd b
by ASalazarMX 8y ago
> In the Therac case, at least part of the fault fell with the operators who should have known what to look for (if things had been well documented and they'd been trained).
This. Even a humble accountant usually reverses entry errors immediately, yet this critical input was harder to double check.
- inlined 8y agoAs I recall correctly, when the technician typed too quickly a subsystem crashed. There was no training for that and no obvious feedback mechanism.