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It would indeed be better if the doctor would get better every time it fails, but for that to happen it requires that the outcome of every treatment be the resp
by Trombone12 11y ago
It would indeed be better if the doctor would get better every time it fails, but for that to happen it requires that the outcome of every treatment be the responsibility of the makers.
Consider software security, how have they historically handled patching known vulnerabilities?
Now, imagine a bug making these millions of doctors cut an order of magnitude too deep when performing some surgery, maybe because some driver error causes sudden acceleration of the cutting instrument. Forty people die on a patch Tuesday (it only happened for a rare procedure) before the makers manage to push out a hotfix. What should happen after this national hiccup?
- minthd 11y agoThe safety-critical software industry is very different from your example, and in general, the results are very good.