[SystemSafety] Looking for information about safety-critical software faults in road vehicles

[Peter Bishop]

On 21/08/2018 12:48, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> With over two decades experience in RCA with WBA, I can agree that the quality of RCA varies hugely
> - within domains as well as across domains. Commercial aviation is reputed to have one of the most
> effective RCA reporting regimes, thanks to ICAO Annex 13, but in fact there are half a dozen
> experienced aviation-accident-investigation agencies and the other nearly two hundred countries
> aren't very good at it at all. We got into it two decades ago because half of what I was reading in
> commercial aviation accident reports seemed to have obvious mistakes in it.

A better source might be airworthiness directives (AD). These are fixes
to aircraft systems mandated by organisations like the FAA in response
to reported incidents (i.e. present a risk to flight safety). While
software is not mentioned, directives to update flight control systems
are most probably (almost certainly?) software related.

Peter Bishop

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