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Costly Software Errors (cont)

Toyota vehicle recall (2009-11)
  • Vehicles experienced sudden unintended acceleration
  • 89 deaths have been linked to the failure
  • 9 million cars recalled worldwide
Causes of failure included …
  • a deficiency in the electronic throttle control system:
    stack overflow
    ⇒ stack grew out of boundary, overwrote other data