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Read the Barr report on Toyota’s unintended acceleration incident. They didn’t have the right failsafes and watchdogs and only a single bit was responsible for
by weaksauce 8y ago
Read the Barr report on Toyota’s unintended acceleration incident. They didn’t have the right failsafes and watchdogs and only a single bit was responsible for a critical feature. Meaning memory corruption or a cosmic ray flipping the bit can cause disaster. They didn’t follow anywhere near best practices in their firmware development. It’s not just the young upstarts that mess this up by being “reckless”