is a hypothetical case of a programmer who is blamed for writing faulty software that was responsible for the death of a robot operator.
Relevant Literature on this Topic
Joseph R. Herkert, ed. 1999. Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings.
Piscataway, New Jersey: IEEE Press (in press). Other keywords for this: consumer safety; design and the environment; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; ethics and economics; ethics and the law; ethics support; global environmental issues; medical information; negligence; privacy; product quality; professional responsibility; professional societies; technical and scholarly societies; professionalism in computing; public safety; risk assessment; system security; whistleblowing.
Don Gotterbarn, "The Uniqueness of Software Errors and Their Impact on
Global Policy," Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 4, no. 4.
Other keywords for this: accountability; criteria for competency.