Everyone who writes safety critical software should read this

[Chris]

On Thursday, 31 October 2013 at 13:32:19 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On 31/10/13 13:49, Chris wrote:
>> I wonder how people could drive 25 years ago!? No software on 
>> board. Gosh they
>> must have been geniuses! ;)
>
> "At greater risk of an accident" != "Incapable of driving" ;-)

Fair enough. Well, I was once driving the companies BMW and the 
ABS etc. saved me when I came to a road that was iced over. I had 
no experience at all with the car. However, if BMW didn't have 
that stupid rear-wheel drive, I would have been fine anyway. 
Front-wheel drive is much safer, especially in wet and icy 
conditions. The danger is that people overestimate the power of 
these technologies and rely too much on them (which leads to 
dangerous situations on the road). I'm glad I learned how to 
drive when cars were still cars and not little space ships.