[SystemSafety] a discursion stimulated by recent discussions of alleged safety-critical software faults in automobile software

[Mike Ellims]

Martyn,

> Why would I care, if the result is better software?

Because even if the software were perfect; if the analysis that led to the
software were flawed, the software could still be dangerous because of
factors outside of the software but still with the consumer product. For
instance with the architecture of the hardware...

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[mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of
Martyn Thomas
Sent: 11 November 2013 15:10
To: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] a discursion stimulated by recent discussions of
alleged safety-critical software faults in automobile software

Mike

Why would I care, if the result is better software?

Sure, there may be other problems in the fictional company. Maybe something
will cause them to fix those, too.

Martyn

On 11/11/2013 14:56, Mike Ellims wrote:
> Martyn,
>
> Was bad software the whole cause of your purely fictional series of 
> events, or were there perhaps deeper issues of which poor software was 
> but a single, if perhaps the most obvious manifestation?
>
> Cheers.

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