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Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by jojobas on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:54AM (#39601339)
Anywhere in aviation it's redundant transducers (the thingies that transform rotation into some sort of signal), redundant flight law computers implemented by independent teams on dissimilar hardware, a stupidly robust vote/compare module, I think mostly analog, and usually a last resort direct mode.

When all of that is implemented in cars and weathers for 10-20 years I might consider it.

Otherwise, seeing as Toyota's regen braking code had like 10k global variables, I'm not touching that with at 10 foot pole.

Acceleration/braking can be quite bad but there's normally neutral and ignition switches. With steering there's literally nothing between you cruising along a highway and you splattered on some concrete pillar 200ms later.

Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by fodkodrasz on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:36AM (#39601638)
That is more than likely generated code. Model based development and code generation (by certified toolchains) are the norm in automotive and aerospace.
Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by jojobas on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:50AM (#39601754)
Nope, all hand-written apparently.