News spread as the pumps charged the rockbottom price instead of 1.20 a litre because of a computer bug.

Do you remember how the world got into a frenzy about the non-existent 2000 millennium computer bug?

This can be a tricky source of program errors (see computer bug).

But will this technology actually work or will it be just another piece of software plagued with computer bugs that never delivers what it promises?

Its proponents seek to recognize computer bugs as inevitable, and then reduce their harmful effects.