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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by 8note on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:49PM (#11492552)
do you have a comparison for the number of miles between human errors?
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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:54PM (#11492586)
It's hard to get an exact figure, particularly because of unreported accidents, and various sources. But I believe insurance companies have previously stated it's about one in every 250,000 miles. For the sake of giving a wide berth for unreported accidents, and to not give humans the benefit of the doubt, I've been using the rough figure of 150,000 miles between accidents.

I don't have a great source for it though, and if anyone finds a good source, it'd be fantastic.

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