Last month, Toyota hastily settled an Unintended Acceleration lawsuit – hours after an Oklahoma jury determined that the automaker acted with “reckless disregard,” and delivered a $3 million verdict to the plaintiffs – but before the jury could determine punitive damages. What did the jury hear that constituted such a gross neglect of Toyota’s due care obligations? The testimony of two plaintiff’s experts in software design and the design process gives some eye-popping clues. After reviewing Toyota’s software engineering process and the source code for the 2005 Toyota Camry, both concluded that the system was defective and dangerous, riddled with bugs and gaps in its failsafes that led to the root cause of the crash.
You’re putting words in my mouth: I’ve never said any such thing. I’ve spoken exclusively about Toyota and their software development practices, which is what this thread is about. I’ve literally not mentioned any other manufacturer at any point, let alone expressed the opinion that any of them “are any better” - although now that you mention it I’d frankly be very hard pressed to see how any of them could possibly be much worse than what is described here. That’d be difficult to do while still having your code even compile.
I’ve see a lot of code over the years, written in numerous languages and running on a very wide variety of hardware. Some of it was… Terrible. I’ve yet to see anything anywhere that had a global shared state space of 10000 distinct variables. That’s beyond insanity.
So how many automobile computers have you worked on? What language did you use? Why didn’t you just refactor everything since the code wasn’t up to your standards?
You’re just like an old man yelling at clouds. Or I guess just one specific type of cloud.
You’re putting words in my mouth: I’ve never said any such thing. I’ve spoken exclusively about Toyota and their software development practices, which is what this thread is about. I’ve literally not mentioned any other manufacturer at any point, let alone expressed the opinion that any of them “are any better” - although now that you mention it I’d frankly be very hard pressed to see how any of them could possibly be much worse than what is described here. That’d be difficult to do while still having your code even compile.
I’ve see a lot of code over the years, written in numerous languages and running on a very wide variety of hardware. Some of it was… Terrible. I’ve yet to see anything anywhere that had a global shared state space of 10000 distinct variables. That’s beyond insanity.
So how many automobile computers have you worked on? What language did you use? Why didn’t you just refactor everything since the code wasn’t up to your standards?
You’re just like an old man yelling at clouds. Or I guess just one specific type of cloud.
Get out here with your code review.