Everyone who writes safety critical software should read this

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 30 October 2013 at 00:16:10 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On 29/10/13 23:20, Chris wrote:
>> Good man yourself! I still can't get my head around the fact 
>> that companies fail
>> to provide safety switches that either hand over the control 
>> (to humans) or at
>> least disable the software based components completely by 
>> switching the machine
>> off.
>
> All too often, the reason why management decides to use 
> software to perform tasks is because they don't trust their 
> employees to do anything.
>
> It's a mystery to me why they don't start by finding employees 
> they _do_ trust ... :-)

These are expensive, and you got to treat them well!