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No, that was never proven, and as another poster pointed out, the independent audit of Toyota's practices suggests that random and uncharacterized faults in Toy
by ak217 8y ago
No, that was never proven, and as another poster pointed out, the independent audit of Toyota's practices suggests that random and uncharacterized faults in Toyota's ECUs cannot be ruled out as causes for the unintended acceleration episodes.
As another sign of this, Toyota both stonewalled the investigation and later fired the director of the division in charge of ECU engineering, and rebuilt the division.
- gruez 8y ago>the independent audit of Toyota's practices suggests that random and uncharacterized faults in Toyota's ECUs cannot be ruled out as causes for the unintended acceleration episodes. >cannot be ruled out That seems like a very weak statement. If you asked a software auditing firm to inspect your massive codebase they're not going to "rule out" any bugs either.
- ak217 8y agoHave you read the independent report? The point of the report was that their engineering practices (both software and hardware) were so extraordinarily dangerous, the ECU was impossible to test with any authority. Its behavior was effectively non-deterministic in many of their cars from that era.
- gruez 8y agoThat's sort of the point. I'm not defending their code. I'm pointing out that even if the code were immaculate, it would be hard for an code auditing firm to say "this has no sudden acceleration bugs". It's a very CYA statement.