Sentence examples for computer fails from inspiring English sources

When a car breaks, a computer fails or a toaster flames out, the manufacturer is often liable under the product warranty.

The Google engineers like to compare driverless cars to airplanes on autopilot, but pilots are trained to stay alert and take over in case the computer fails.

The front of the car does not feature a bonnet, and will be built using a foam-like material to reduce its impact should it hit anything if the computer fails.

NO matter what sort of computer, new or old, you place in your home or office or even toss in your briefcase, the moment will arrive, as unavoidably as death and taxes, when your computer fails to do what it is supposed to do.

The whole system would fail if the computer fails.

If the bank's computer fails, large sums of money could be lost.

In a morning class, the computer failed.

But the computer failed to attract a critical mass, and for years it has been considered a quaint relic of the personal computing past.

WHEN the hard drive on Melissa Grove's computer failed, she faced the possibility of losing 7,000 Word documents, 600 spreadsheets, hundreds of PowerPoint presentations and 12 years of federal grant applications.

For example, Mr. Brennan said that in preparing tables for the original report, titled "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003," a computer failed to generate statistics for the period after mid-November, leaving out several incidents.

Motorists who type the wrong number into the computer — zero for an O in the license plate, for instance — mistakenly believe that they have paid the congestion charge, only to find themselves incurring steep fines later in the month because their payment was not accepted and the computer failed to inform them.