Linux in mixed-criticality systems [LWN.net]

Linux in mixed-criticality systems

Posted Dec 21, 2018 7:35 UTC (Fri) by murukesh (subscriber, #97031)
In reply to: Linux in mixed-criticality systems by rahvin
Parent article: Linux in mixed-criticality systems

Do you have some reading material on this? I looked through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_accelerat... and that article seems to claim that the problem was not with electronics or code, but with the pedal design (and the floor mat). Or are you describing another SUA incident?

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Linux in mixed-criticality systems

Posted Jan 3, 2019 16:02 UTC (Thu) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link] (1 responses)

Lots of gripping stuff for the embedded software engineer here. I found it compulsive reading.

https://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-...
http://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/Bookout_v_Toyota_Ba...

Toyota's Unintended Acceleration

Posted Jan 6, 2019 1:02 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Fascinating, thanks.

Whether these bugs are real or not and no matter who "wins" this eventually, Toyota and others should already have learned a lesson the hard way: every time human life is at stake legal costs alone far outweigh any development cost saved by sloppy programming. While a rather low bar it's still a somewhat "good" bit of news.

People cope with getting screwed over again and again by $BIGCORP and the 0.1% but funny enough there's always this line that you really can't cross: they don't like to... die.

Now rebooting my smartphone to work around some memory leak and other random issues...