The court case showed that the throttle control programming was shoddy in various ways, but I don't think they demonstrated any observably buggy behavior, let a

The court case showed that the throttle control programming was shoddy in various ways, but I don't think they demonstrated any observably buggy behavior, let alone any proof that software faults were behind any particular accident. I think it's also quite possible that there never were any abnormal unintended accelerations, but the media debacle caused people to carefully investigate the cars, at which point they discovered that the programming was bad.