PSA: I just read that some modern cars have over 100 million lines of code

Found it in an article about software in the auto industry. Is that a good thing for us, or just more stuff to go wrong?

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hugo509d ago

Yeah, points of failure is the real worry.

piper17510d ago

Sounds crazy but is it really that different from a normal computer? More code just means more features to me.

the_mason9d ago

Whoa, hold up @piper175. It's totally different. More code doesn't just add features, it adds points of failure and weird interactions. Think about a simple app that gets bloated. Suddenly it's slow, buggy, and a battery hog. That's on a small scale. For a whole car's computer, that complexity can mean real safety risks, not just a frozen screen. It's about how all that code works together under pressure.