Reply #121: w4rma is right [View All]

[Bearware]

If you do not have seriously experienced programmers that understand realtime multi-threaded system programming, you are going to get nowhere.

I have seen the above circus on a much smaller scale many times. Nothing ever got done until they finally let the right people go to work with access to everything. No you cannot open a can of programmers or outsource it to 1000 programmers in India. A handful of the right people (who can work with peers) could probably find one to several bugs in some weeks AFTER they are given full access to the accident data, system design data and the code. You might be able to download the software changes to each affected car without changing any hardware or screwing with gas pedals and floor rugs.

I wonder how many hundreds of thousands to low millions of dollars Toyota is going to save on programmer salaries for each billion they burn up.

I suspect Toyota is going to have to do a major rewrite of big chunks of their software because they did not pay for competent people
the first time around.