When Software Bugs Are Literally Fatal

A Bug in the Boeing 787 software requires a reboot every month or total loss of plane control — why is it so hard to write bug-free code?

Doug Foo
Geek Culture
Published in
7 min readMay 19, 2021

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Photo by Dion Tavenier on Unsplash

Boeing is just one example of a firm under fire due to software defects that at least partly caused lives to be lost. They aren’t alone — there is a history of…

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