I didn't
know about this bug which would have been catastrophic.
1. A faulty Soviet early warning system nearly caused World War III. In 1983, a software bug in the Soviet system reported that the U.S. launched five ballistic missiles.
Certainly not a feature! I venture to say that even today we place too much trust in software. Then there's this:
4. Two partners used different and incompatible versions of the same software to design and assemble the Airbus A380 jetliner in 2006. When Airbus tried to bring together two halves of the aircraft, the wiring on one did not match the wiring in the other. That caused at least a one-year and very costly delay to the project.
I bet someone at Airbus was really having a bad hair day!
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