Howself-sufficient we believe we are? How safe are we in our littleworld of technology I-do-it-for-you? We have been so dependent ontechnology and systems over the years that we cant also notice howvulnerable we are. Almost everything we use and depend today alsodepends on chips, circuits and micro embedded systems. From the carwe drive, communication, to even basic necessities such aselectricity, water and food.Wehava a small example about it when our cell phone is out of servicefor just a while. Especially for those younger, who grew up in thecell phone era. We become desperate!!! When 20 years ago the personwho had access to this kind of technology was quite rare. I didntunderstand, when I was young and fashion, how people lived withouttelevision.Todayeverything is so dependent on systems, technology and informaticsthat requires complex plannings and huge investments to ensure thethings working.EletrobrasDistribuicao Rondonia (a power company in North Region of Brazil),for example, invested R$600 thousand to implement an IntegratedOperations Center (IOC), to gather in one place professionals andservices for Operation Center of Distribution of all regions of thestate, Departments of Distribution of Operations, Distribution itselfand Maintenance Services. The IOC is fully computerized to providethe system operators all conditions to control, from anywhere, theelectrical installations of power substations, power lines and powerdistribution network, keeping the economy, security and efficiencyneeded to ensure continuity in the supply of distributed electricity.Themore complex the environment is, the more investment and bettercontingency planning are also required to prevent a failure in thesystem. Firewalls, redundancy, backup plan, etc. And even with allthis, between 2011 and early 2014 were registered 181 blackouts inBRazil, according to a survey of the Brazilian Center forInfrastructure (CBIE). Furthermore, in a hacker invasion of the IOCSystem, for example, it could turn off the power of an entire state.InSOuth Australia a death of a patient is under investigation, whereapparently there was a falt in the system that categorizes emergencycalls, by prioritizing in dispatch ambulances and giving advices ofprocedures to be done. A patient died after the system flagged anemergency call as a collapse when in fact the patient was unconsciousand not breathing. Thus the system also couldnt send the advicesto give a little extra survival time for this patient, by someoneclose to him, until the help arrives.Butlets get out from large and complex environments to a private,small complex environment. The futuristic Driverless cars - a carwithout drivers. NIssan is about to launch by August this year itsautopilot system, named ProPILOT. An autopilot system to be used inheavy traffic situations, slow traffic or during extended commutes.Thesystem can automatically manage the distance between the car and anyleading car, between speeds ranging from about 18mph to about 60mph,also It also fully stoping when the car in front stops. It also keepsthe car in the lane, using a monocular 360-degree camera systemcommunicating with an on-board processing system. The plans are togradually introduce more autonomy, but its staging the release ofadditional features. Lane switching in highway conditions is set tocome to ProPILOT in 2018, and city driving, including fullintersection negotiation, is currently supposed to make its debut in2020.Nowwhat happens if the system fails or