> I like my filesystems like I like my Toyota, reliable. Not sure if you're deliberately joking or not, but the quality of software in Toyota cars is hilarious

> I like my filesystems like I like my Toyota, reliable. Not sure if you're deliberately joking or not, but the quality of software in Toyota cars is hilariously awful. There was a stunning writeup by one of the people who got source code to investigate the unintended acceleration issue a few years back. [1] IIRC, as part of the cruise control, if they decided the car was going too slow it'd be given a command to accelerate. There was a second process which checked the speed, and once the car was going fast enough, it'd kill the accelerate process. Except the check/kill process would regularly crash, so the car would be told to accelerate and then nothing would be there to tell it to stop. Don't worry though, there's a software watchdog process to catch this! Except the watchdog ran under the same process manager as the check/stop script, so when the stop script crashed it'd take the watchdog process down too - and this was only the top of the iceburg when it came to problems. tldr: software quality in Toyota's was abysmal and there's little reason to believe it's gotten fundamentally better. [1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_slides.pdf https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... [1.5] Actual Talk: https://betterembsw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/a-case-study-of-toyota-unintended.html https://betterembsw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/a-case-study-of-t...