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Re:The day my script killed 10k phones in South America by treesknees on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:35AM (#28918539)
You're just not looking in the right places, and your comment is a bit disingenuous. You're cherry-picking examples that don't represent an entire industry.

NASA for example has an _extremely_ tight tolerance on software specifications, testing, and proofs [1]. Medical devices and other core infrastructure also has very robust development cycles to ensure bugs don't bring down the power grid or overcharge someones heart in a pacemaker.

Meanwhile you can look at the auto industry and find example after example of shoddy engineering or manufacturing processes putting hundreds of thousands of drivers and families at risk. [2] [3] [4]

1 - https://www.nasa.gov/isd-robust-software-engineering 2 - https://news.yahoo.com/chevy-bolts-stressful-recall-16170005... 3 - https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/takata-a... 4 - https://www.cars.com/articles/explaining-the-toyota-floormat...

Re:The day my script killed 10k phones in South America by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:39PM (#28920163)
It seems pretty clear that software is behind the auto industry in build quality/reliability too.