{"id":356155,"date":"2010-02-23T22:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T03:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapcfixer.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T03:19:36","slug":"nhtsa-has-no-engineers-to-investigate-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/356155","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA Has No Engineers to Investigate Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An official from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told investigators that the agency doesn&#8217;t employ any electrical engineers or software engineers, leaving them woefully unable to investigate correctly what caused the most recent Toyota recall. A modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 to 100 microprocessors. And according to consultant Frost &amp; Sullivan, that number will rise to 200 to 300 million lines within a few years. And the software that controls the &#8216;drive-by-wire&#8217; accelerators of Toyota and Lexus vehicles is one potential culprit in the tangled collection of issues, allegations, and recalls of many of those vehicles for so-called &#8217;sudden acceleration&#8217; problems.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy of slashdot.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told investigators that the agency doesn&#8217;t employ any electrical engineers or software engineers, leaving them woefully unable to investigate correctly what caused the most recent Toyota recall. A modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}