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Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs
An anonymous reader writes "David Cummings, a programmer who worked on the Mars Pathfinder project, has written an interesting editorial in the L.A. Times encouraging Toyota to drop claims of software infallibility in their recent acceleration problems. He argues that embedded systems developers must program more defensively, and that companies should stop relying on software for safety. Quoting: 'If Toyota has indeed tested its software as thoroughly as it says without finding any bugs, my response is simple: Keep trying. Find new ways to instrument the software, and come up with more creative tests. The odds are that there are still bugs in the code, which may or may not be related to unintended acceleration. Until these bugs are identified, how can you be certain they are not related to sudden acceleration?'"
At least 3 mod points will be wasted on this post.
Dumbasses.
This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
Your stupid irrelevant rant is worse than GP's stupid slightly-relevant comparison.
Go ahead internet tough guy and absolute expert, I dare ya to tell this guy what he found is all "hype", because your cred is so much better than his, plus you don't own one, and he does, but you know better that it is all just "hype"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10445564-64.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0
covered here previously
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1458230/Woz-Cites-Scary-Prius-Acceleration-Software-Problem
and this is hype, burnt brakes and everything
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Runaway-Prius-Needs-Help-to-StopCHP-86965487.html
Please post your back and forth email correspondence with woz when you tell him it is all hype, and that he is wrong and you are right, along with your technical analysis why you say it is all hype.
Your statement is a tautology. "All the X around these Y problems is just that, X." Well duh!