Blaming people is how we can control this kind of thing. If we try to blame machines, or companies, it will be uncontrollable.
Blaming people is how we can control this kind of thing. If we try to blame machines, or companies, it will be uncontrollable.
The aviation industry has a very different philosophy, and a much better safety record. They don't have as much pressure to lay the blame in a single place, but "bad UI" and "poorly explained/documented assistive feature" are totally valid things to label as the primary cause of fatalities.
The label and the consequence go to two different parties, both of whom are responsible in some way. Sounds reasonable.
We don't require hundreds of hours of training and education to operate a computer. You can just go to the store and buy one, plug it in, and run whatever software you want on it.
So there are quite some differences between these scenarios. In my view if you run some program on your computer, you're responsible for the consequences. Nobody else can be. And don't say you didn't know what the program would do--if that's the case you shouldn't have run it in the first place.