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Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration
New submitter robertchin writes "Michael Barr recently testified in the Bookout v. Toyota Motor Corp lawsuit that the likely cause of unintentional acceleration in the Toyota Camry may have been caused by a stack overflow. Due to recursion overwriting critical data past the end of the stack and into the real time operating system memory area, the throttle was left in an open state and the process that controlled the throttle was terminated. How can users protect themselves from sometimes life endangering software bugs?"
Is there anything Stackoverflow can't do?
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Suddenly Toyota lawyers sued this website http://stackoverflow.com/ and claimed they are victims too.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
typical stack overflow high rated answer - totally ignoring the question at hand
Recursion is fine if recursion is fine if recursion is fine if recursion is fine if recursion is fine if you do it right.
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Problem solved!**
**Some users may experience complete lack of vehicle control while the system is rebooting.
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From the slides:
"Toyota used dangerous recursion"
Not like that safe recursion that other vendors use.
Use java
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