The design fault is having a failure mode that leads to full power to the left, not the fact that there was a failure.
I've noticed that automakers are about 60 years behind aircraft makers in design methodologies that prevent things like hardovers due to single component failures.
I'm not exaggerating about the 60 years thing. I worked in Boeing engineering 40 years ago and the "no single component failure causing a crash" was the rule and literally the law.
(A lesson Boeing had to relearn with the 737MAX MCAS system.)
Nuclear reactors (Fukishima) and drilling rigs (Deepwater Horizon) are far behind, too.
This isn't even this level... There is a certain sequence of actions to make it do it... and it isn't hard to do by accident - it basically involves turning on every electrical thing (as you would do on a cold dark night), having a quite flat 12v battery (as would happen if you left the car unused for a few months), then turning the steering wheel while revving the engine (as happens while you're pulling out of a parking space).
So park the car for a few months, then go to unpark it on a cold night... Not at all rare!
I've noticed that automakers are about 60 years behind aircraft makers in design methodologies that prevent things like hardovers due to single component failures.
I'm not exaggerating about the 60 years thing. I worked in Boeing engineering 40 years ago and the "no single component failure causing a crash" was the rule and literally the law.
(A lesson Boeing had to relearn with the 737MAX MCAS system.)
Nuclear reactors (Fukishima) and drilling rigs (Deepwater Horizon) are far behind, too.