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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?"
if only it was true for this electric junk they keep using in new cars basically the hybrids lack the things you mention to stop suck a runaway shutting he car off shifting the trans etc. and if this story is true and they ddint test what would happen on a ecm crash that's is just dammed reckless. even on older cars if theirs a ecm problem or some code isnt getting to it that part of the car shuts down. in the case of the accelerate processes crashing the throttle should go to 0 not 100%.