Slightly sensationalist. The story is driven by a plaintiff's lawyer and a consultant suing a large BigCo with deep pockets. So nothing new there. The tear-down

Slightly sensationalist. The story is driven by a plaintiff's lawyer and a consultant suing a large BigCo with deep pockets. So nothing new there. The tear-down into the ECU tho is slighty interesting. Unintentional RTOS task shutdown was heavily investigated as a potential source of the UA. As single bits in memory control each task, corruption due to HW or SW faults will suspend needed tasks or start unwanted ones. Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.