Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO
by leoc on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:10PM
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It's aside from your point, but would that Toyota's embedded software were as good as its mechanical engineering...
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Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO
by coupdejarnac on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:20PM
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Anecdote time. My former company outsourced embedded development to the company that does firmware for Toyota. It was a complete disaster, and a year of work had to be scrapped. Code was rife with cut and paste, badly reimplemented mutexes when they could have used the ones supplied with the RTOS, and other nonsense. I suspect the Japanese company put all their deadweight engineers on the project.
Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO
by tonyarkles on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:31AM
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From my understanding of the "unintended acceleration" lawsuit, you could very well have had the exact same engineers who implemented the Toyota firmware :).