This question came into my mind yesterday, when I caught the smell of burning wires in my room. Turns out, my power supply’s fan was jammed by my pen’s ink cartridge (Don’t ask why)
This question came into my mind yesterday, when I caught the smell of burning wires in my room. Turns out, my power supply’s fan was jammed by my pen’s ink cartridge (Don’t ask why)
Now that so many things we use every day have computers in them, many causes of death are related to computers.
Many modern cars (especially electric cars) are basically computers that drive; cars kill many people. The same applies to planes. Software bugs in medical software might cause you to receive improper care, which could kill you. Computers might control a lock which might lock you in a room until you die of dehydration or starvation.
I think that what happened with the Boeing 737-MAX crashing was that they had a sensor that if it got stuck, the software was programed to make the plane pitch down, even overriding the pilot’s own input. That resulted in the deaths of 346 people.
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.