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by temuze 4070 days ago
Or building a bridge.

Or coding software for medical machines.

Or being a pilot or a bus driver.

Or construction.

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> Or coding software for medical machines.

I don't believe anybody was arrested for the Therac-25[1] accidents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

I know of people who have been arrested. They were upper management, though, not engineers. They tried to ignore the FDA, and they got walked out in handcuffs. (This was not in relation to Therac-25.)