Toyota, industry need more rigorous testing, says software-testing firm

The latest cases of uncontrolled acceleration in the Toyota Prius point to software glitches that the car industry needs to address with more rigorous testing, according to a company that specializes in software integrity.

No doubt; as cars become more complex, year after year, putting all this mass of code together and expecting it to work right “out of the box” is a daunting challenge. And we’re talking a lot of code. To put this in perspective: 

"The amount of code in cars today is getting truly enormous," said Andy Chou, chief scientist and co-founder of Coverity. Luxury cars can have as much as 100 million lines of code, according to Chou. (Windows Vista, by comparison, is estimated to have about 50 million lines of code.)

No kidding. When you car contains more code than your computer, that's saying something!