Poor Steve Wozniak, it wasn’t very nice for Steve to find that his accelerator pedal went crazy whilst he was driving his new 2010 Toyota Prius!
It seems this issue of software quality, or lack of quality, has finally made it to the vehicles we commute in. Reading stories about big companies being sued or fined over data breeches because of a software bug, does not top being almost killed in your car by a software bug!!
The message here is, get your software properly tested before it really does kill someone!
After reading this article you will probably be wondering about all the items you come into contact with everyday that uses software. Quite a lot! http://gizmodo.com/5462004/steve-wozniak-explains-that-faulty-software-caused-his-car-troubles
Tell us what would be the worst software glitch that could happen to you? I’ll start with one…the worst software glitch in my everyday life would probably be if my Sky plus software did not record Star Trek Voyager! Okay, sounds tame, but I really don’t like missing episodes.
How about you??
