The Therac-25 incident, and Bhopal Gas Tragedy were definitely routine lessons in courses on industrial safety and reliability. (Another reason not to turn your

The Therac-25 incident, and Bhopal Gas Tragedy were definitely routine lessons in courses on industrial safety and reliability. (Another reason not to turn your nose up against academic coursework - they do impart useful knowledge.) I feel that lot of manual errors and UI errors can be mitigated by careful design. Punishing natural careless errors is not very effective, as recent research shows [1]: [1] https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjsca/32/7/32_954/_article/-char/en https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjsca/32/7/32_954/_arti...