A missed opportunity, in my view, to discuss how #SiliconValley’s somewhat recent entry into the #SafetyCritical systems space is really the far more pressing issue here.
Hand-waving systems safety yields enormous cost savings (far more than is typically expected) and is corrosive to a modern society in ways that courts could never rectify once sufficiently lost.
People today cannot really remember a time when everyday products would readily kill or maim. So, having lost those experiences over the decades, Silicon Valley increasingly saw a business opportunity.
But modern society is grounded on the public’s trust and, given enough critical mass, trust can be virtually lost overnight.
Quite literally.
That is Great Depression stuff right there, folks.
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