NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota 459
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."
Heads better roll (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Welp (Score:5, Funny)
Which car company do work for?
A major one.
Re:Computer Engineers needed (Score:3, Funny)
Even better, this one [mattel.com] only costs $12.99!
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft Hotline (Score:2, Funny)
Can't they just call Microsoft's toll-free number and ask someone over there to look at it?
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:2, Funny)
Simple AI: If a question ends in a vowel, the answer is no. Otherwise the answer is yes.
Question: Is your signature true?
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:4, Funny)
No
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:3, Funny)
advice for anyone with a runaway gas pedal (Score:4, Funny)
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:3, Funny)
yes
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:3, Funny)
yes- This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:5, Funny)
But if he is lying then he is telling the truth
and if he is telling the truth he is lying...
NORMAN COORDINATE!!!!!
Re:Real talk. (Score:1, Funny)
They have 1000's of software engineers (Score:1, Funny)
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?
100 MLOC? They should have used Lisp. (Score:3, Funny)
The car function is built in.
Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... (Score:2, Funny)
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.