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Re:Ask HN: Risk of unsafe software in automobiles? by Glawen on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:12PM (#34163861)
Strange you mention Toyota as manufacturer, as they are the one who fucked up with the unintended acceleration issue mentioned earlier. The thing is that they "forgot" to implement the mechanism which ignore gas pedal when both brake and gas pedal are pressed. This was a recommended safety feature for accelerator by wire implementation (egas norm).

Then a few years later they got hit again with one of their suppliers: Takata's killing airbags

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Re:Ask HN: Risk of unsafe software in automobiles? by sitkack on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:34PM (#34167490)
Apparently they are still killing people. If owners don't get the airbags replaced, the cars should be impounded.

I just read a story where someone borrowed a car with a Takata airbag in it and was killed.

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