Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet

Re:Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a P... by phire on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:58AM (#10270077)

Yes. Any code which has a safety responsibility should have it's code publicly available.

You could divide the cars systems up into safety critical and non-safety critical components, like there is no reason why the software running the car's media center needs to publicly available, but there should be a well defined interface between the media center and safety critical code (or no interface at all)

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Re:Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a P... by floor__ on Thursday September 24, 2015 @10:45AM (#10271874)

So you want software regulations on how code ought to be done? Forcing the separation of components based on safety... what even warrants a component to fall under these regulations. Such a dangerous slope. Just think of a time when regulation is at its peak and people want to innovate but can't due to law restrictions / regulations. Being trapped by standards that are produced by people who know nothing about software.

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