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Navy software (among, to be fair, other things) killed 10 sailors in a preventable collision: https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-instal

• KennyBlanken 5y ago
  Lack of training killed them. The ship's command put a farm kid with barely four months in the navy at the controls of a warship in an area that is infamous for how congested and difficult it is to navigate. Not four months experience on the bridge. Four months from when he joined the navy. > Bordeaux felt confident using the system to control the speed and heading of the ship. But there were many things he did not understand about the array of dials, arrows and data that filled the touch screen. > “There was actually a lot of functions on there that I had no clue what on earth they did,” Bordeaux said of the system. As for his boss: > The chief petty officer had himself received less than an hour of instruction. That's the guy in charge of training the bridge staff. Nobody knew how to use the system.