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Safety-critical systems are one of the software types that raise many legal and ethical issues. You can touch its benefits everywhere but .the consequences of malfunctions are disastrous Write a report titled "Risks and liabilities of safety-critical systems" and cover the following topics:

What is a safety-critical system? What does it consist of?

Safety-critical systems are everywhere in our lives, mention eight different examples for safety-critical systems from different areas and specify each for each application the area it belongs to.

Discuss four distinguishable features of safety critical systems.

Discuss four reliability regimes/factors for safety-critical systems.

Discuss four challenges in developing safety-critical systems that are not usual in developing traditional systems.

Discuss five errors that may lead to system failure in the safety-critical systems.

Explain one real example about a safety-critical system failure and explain the reasons of the failure and its consequences, and what should have been done to avoid such crisis.

As a software developer, write some recommendations and guidelines to your colleagues to use when developing safety-critical systems and make sure to make their liabilities, responsibilities, skills required clear. Cover at least ten important points.

Conclude your report by summarizing importance of safety-critical systems in enhancing our lives and work and the need to put standards and legislations in advance to avoid any ethical or legal issues that may emerge.