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In the 1990s an engineer for one the U.S. automakers told me that the code in their cars was a black box. Nobody knew how it functioned; all they could do was w
by hackuser 11y ago
In the 1990s an engineer for one the U.S. automakers told me that the code in their cars was a black box. Nobody knew how it functioned; all they could do was watch the input and output, and add patches as needed to modify the output.
Maybe the engineer was talking about code for a specific component, but perhaps Toyota's software isn't unique.
- r00fus 11y agoExactly my thoughts. I bet any company when put under the spotlight would show some really bad practices/anti-patterns. Is that however, a problem with the industry? I can't help think of Fight Club's "recall" equation here...