Excerpt from New York Times Article from Sep 3, 2024

"After reviewing the incident, [the AV company] indicated that its car had struggled to recognize the fire trucks because they were yellow, not red." (source: New York Times article)

Our Thoughts from System and Safety Engineering Perspective

How can their management sleep well?

CASE preaches proper upfront and in-the-dev-loop Systems Engineering. It is doable! Writing a requirement or assumption related to the color(s) of a certain type of emergency vehicles is no magic. CASE wants to help you set up your organization and workflow with the right structure and automatisms in a way that these things do not slip through.

That is how management can sleep well.