[tropo]

The other engineers do their part, and then software controls it. Bad software destroys things. People get killed by accident.

Then there are the security holes in things that will never get updates, the malware-infested webcams and TVs... this too impacts the world.

We can combine it all: connected cars. This isn't "other engineers". It's software developers -- call them programmers or software engineers if you like.

[stale2002]

Sure. In the very rare situation of connected cars, or infrastructure, it is important that code quality is bullet proof.

Fortunately most developers write web and mobile apps.

It doesn't really matter that much if 1% of the time the add friend button doesn't work on the Opera web browser.