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NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota
thecarchik writes "An official from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told investigators that the agency doesn't employ any electrical engineers or software engineers, leaving them woefully unable to investigate correctly what caused the most recent Toyota recall. A modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 to 100 microprocessors. And according to consultant Frost & Sullivan, that number will rise to 200 to 300 million lines within a few years. And the software that controls the 'drive-by-wire' accelerators of Toyota and Lexus vehicles is one potential culprit in the tangled collection of issues, allegations, and recalls of many of those vehicles for so-called 'sudden acceleration' problems."
If the statement in the article is true then this country is in even worse shape than I thought. It seems like rarely a handful of months can go by without the realization that yet another Federal department is completely incompetent. How in the hell does the NHTSA even do their job?! They are supposed to ensure that vehicles are safe but they don't even have the staff to do that.
What the hell is wrong with our country?
Which car company do work for?
A major one.
Even better, this one only costs $12.99!
My UID is prime... is yours?
So you are saying they would be perfect for a Government job.
Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
Can't they just call Microsoft's toll-free number and ask someone over there to look at it?
Like the beaver, it's just Dam one thing after another
Simple AI: If a question ends in a vowel, the answer is no. Otherwise the answer is yes.
Question: Is your signature true?
No
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Are you a liar?
Bottles.
Shift into neutral. I haven't seen this anywhere as part of the many Toyota-related discussions around the world, so figured I'd mention it.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
yes
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
yes- This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
But if he is lying then he is telling the truth
and if he is telling the truth he is lying...
NORMAN COORDINATE!!!!!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Too bad we can't give asshole points.
as soon as they require the code to be open to the public for inspection.
How many more people have to die before we get to look at the code?
The car function is built in.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
The A level executives are the Illuminati controllers who give the C levels their marching orders.
I'm not really surprised you hadn't heard of them, they like to hide in the shadows being Vampires and all.
Celebrity worship is a poor substitute for Deity worship and costs more to boot.