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Quote: automated control needed for a highly reliable storm surge barrier; humans have one in a thousand failure probability for complex tasks

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Topic:
safety critical systems
Topic:
automation

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The main requirement on the [storm surge] barrier is … [10-4, i.e., one flooding every 10,000 years]. Careful failure analysis showed that manual control of this barrier … for a complex task like deciding when to … a computer control the barrier.   Google-1   Google-2

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