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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by Insanity on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:29AM (#17757672)
Software in cars, planes, other types of transportation. Medical software, military programs, the software used by civil engineers,..

There's probably lots of software where it could play part

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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by InitialLastName on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:00AM (#17757938)
Not to mention the phone apps that keep users so addicted they can't look away to operate heavy machinery.
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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by pluto9 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:18PM (#17759264)
If a crane falls over because the operator was playing Candy Crush, I think that can be placed squarely in the category of "user error".
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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by jnxx on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:19PM (#17762417)
> Not to mention the phone apps that keep users so addicted they can't look away to operate heavy machinery.

Or cars while they are crossing the roads. I see this daily.

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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by InitialLastName on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @07:51PM (#17770746)
Oh, good point. Do you have any statistics handy on how many people are killed and maimed by inattentive pedestrians? It would be useful for contrasting with [0].

[0]: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8124...

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