Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration 664
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?"
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone else read that title and think... (Score:5, Funny)
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Those wily Toyota lawyers .... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Go Amish? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Outlaw Recursion (Score:5, Funny)
Got it Handled! (Score:5, Funny)
Problem solved!**
**Some users may experience complete lack of vehicle control while the system is rebooting.
Dangerous recursion! (Score:5, Funny)
From the slides:
"Toyota used dangerous recursion"
Not like that safe recursion that other vendors use.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Gives a new meaning to "race condition," doesn't it?
Simple (Score:4, Funny)
Use java