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>I'll give you two guesses as to how they decide who goes to prison if God forbid something in the software is shown to have caused a fatality? Would you mind
by yesenadam 8y ago
>I'll give you two guesses as to how they decide who goes to prison if God forbid something in the software is shown to have caused a fatality?
Would you mind just telling us instead? Thanks.
- rleigh 8y agoSee IEC 62304:2006 (https://www.iso.org/standard/38421.html https://www.iso.org/standard/38421.html) and the related standards which govern the formal processes which medical device software must meet for FDA and CE approval (as well as other national standards). The whole process from requirements, specifications, high and low level design, implementation, validation and verification and the rest of the lifecycle requires stringent oversight, including documentation and signoffs. The signatures on those documents have legal meaning and accountability for the engineers who did the analysis and review at each stage.
- roel_v 8y agoLook at this from an economics perspective, do people in this sort of positions get paid more than comparable positions in other fields? I'd never heard of legal liability for software engineers. Has anyone ever been convicted or otherwise been held accountable when there was a failure?