On 11/22/11 08:16 , Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> > >> As in all cases, additional flexibility results in additional ability >> to make mistakes. Simple mechanical lockouts do not scale to the >> modern world. The benefits of these additional capabilities far >> outweigh the perceived risks of programming errors. > > The perceived risk in this case is "multiple high-speed traffic fatalities". > > I believe we rank that pretty high; it's entirely possible that a traffic > light controller is the most potentially dangerous artifact (in terms of > number of possible deaths) that the average citizen interacts with on a > daily basis.
Cars generically cause at lot more deaths than faulty traffic controllers 13.2 per 100,000 population in the US annually.
