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This is an outstanding postmortem of this incident. I really did not expect it from Forbes.

Accidents will happen. One thing that will be important going forward is a proper operational response to the problem and this is likely to become more complicated as time goes on. After all if these have been on the road for 5 years, would it really be necessary then to stop operations?

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> After all if these have been on the road for 5 years, would it really be necessary then to stop operations?

I imagine they wouldn't be running the same software for 5 years. Whenever there's an update, the "days without accident" for that particular version is set to zero, so I suppose until you know why the accident happened, it's the right choice to assume that all vehicles running that version might be affected.

>Accidents will happen.

Nope. In the uk they're RTC's - road traffic collisions - someone will be at fault.

In the UK, traffic accidents don't happen? Of course someone is at fault, though.

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