Poorly designed checkbox that killed 10 sailors and cost >200 million USD:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41297563">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41297563</a>
Also see: "Safeware: System Safety and Computers"<p>and the work of the author, Nancy Leveson:<p><a href="http://sunnyday.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://sunnyday.mit.edu/</a>
Yet another article on the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine dose bug scandal from the 1980s. 62 previous posts:<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=therac-25" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=therac-25</a>