Agreed. The predictable retort that there is no need for a public review of source code, "because indecipherable/underhanded code can still be written" is nons

Agreed. The predictable retort that there is no need for a public review of source code, "because indecipherable/underhanded code can still be written" is nonsense. If the code is so poorly written and tested that it is possible to be underhanded without the risk of anyone noticing, that code should not be on the road! We wouldn't be happy if the cars wiring and hydraulic systems were a fragile spaghetti mess that was impossible to inspect, why should we allow it for embedded software?