100 Million Lines of Code in Your Car

I was reading over on DevTopic today about how 100 Million Lines of Code is pretty common in cars today. We have come a really long way since 1977 when the first micro-chip was introduced in to the Oldsmobile Toronado, but what I really want to share with you guys is what I found at the end of the post. I laughed out loud, when I read this because believe it or not this is starting to happen in cars and it has nothing to do with Microsoft. Just the ever growing source code base that runs modern cars, and the ever growing chance for one of those lines to have a bug it in. ...

March 10, 2009 · 3 min · 454 words · Nick Berardi