Among other things, what I found interesting was that Barr was giving expert testimony on engineering and "engineering certainty", when as far as I can tell he

Among other things, what I found interesting was that Barr was giving expert testimony on engineering and "engineering certainty", when as far as I can tell he doesn't have a PE license (if he does, he's the first engineer I've ever heard of that doesn't conspicuously advertise it). I was under the impression that wasn't permitted in any state. edit: Toyota did plenty wrong. Chiefly, I'd say that ignoring their own documented processes should be at the top. Having a system utilization of >70% would be another, as is using recursion. All are things that, at the time, were no-nos. I don't however think that one can fairly argue that it's practical or sensible to implement emerging standards during the multi-year car development process, which many seem to be arguing. I also remain skeptical that the unintended acceleration events are software related. It seems that for one to buy the bit flip argument from the trial, one also has to assume that the drivers depleted the service break vacuum, and that combination doesn't seem probable to me.