Everyone who writes safety critical software should read this

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

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 
... :-)