This is an interesting case but I wonder what the statistics are around this. Computers die just like cables snap. There will absolutely be unpreventable failures, but there really seems to be an interesting psychological component to the way we expect computers to work flawlessly where we are better at acknowledging the failures of mechanical components. Obviously the failure mode here was not ideal, so hopefully that can be improved.

If a throttle cable was jammed it would be the same outcome and at least for me, I can imagine it would make me feel less uneasy. Maybe it's the consistency of code that makes us expect that if one failure exists, more are likely?