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> You misunderstood what I said. My point was that if a > computer controlled car's computer fails it can be made to > fail-safe. Shut down and coast to a stop. The same cant be > said for planes.

Just because you are at ground-level you are not safe if you lose control of the vehicle.

> The point being that once a bug is found and eliminated it > wont reoccur.

We already have a software industry and we know that this doesn't happen: bugs do not occur only once and then get eliminated forever. There are people making a living writing books about mistakes that people repeat over and over in software.



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